he married Bernice Adelson. In 1961, he was invited to join the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris by Fernand Braudel, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Alexandre Koyré and in 1968 became Professor of Geography and Head of Department at the School of Geography at the University of Oxford (1968–1983). In the 1980s, Gottman wrote numerous essays to develop his ideas about ‘transactional’ cities whose primary economic function is the processing and distribution of information. After retiring as emeritus professor he remained in Oxford until the end of his life. Beyond his contribution to the study of megalopolis and to urban geography, his theoretical work on the political partitioning of geographical space as a result of the interplay between movement flows and symbolic systems (iconographies) has been rediscovered after his death. Awards Gottmann was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the American Geographical Society in 1956, and its Charles P. Daly Medal in 1964. In 1980 he received the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. He also was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. Bibliography Jean Gottmann's bibliography lists about 400 references. The following list is a selection of some of his most relevant books and papers: L'homme, la route et l'eau en Asie sud-occidentale (1938) De la méthode d'analyse en géographie humaine, Annales de Géographie (1947) L'Amerique (1949) A geography of Europe (1950, 1969) La politique des Etats et leur géographie (1952) Virginia at mid-Century (1955) Les marchés des matières premières (1957) Etudes sur l'Etat d'Israel (1958) Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (1961) Essais sur l'amenagement de l'espace habité (1966) The significance of territory (1973) Centre and Periphery (1980) La città invincibile (1983) Since Megalopolis (1990) Beyond Megalopolis (1994) See also Megalopolis (city type) Geographers on Film References General Muscarà Luca (2003), "The Long Road to Megalopolis", Ekistics, vol. 70, n.418-9, pp. 23–35, Muscarà Luca (2005), "Territory as a Psychosomatic Device: Gottmann’s Kinetic Political Geography", Geopolitics, 10, pp. 24–49, Muscarà Luca (1998), "The Complete Bibliography of Jean Gottmann", Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography, Document 64, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 1915 births 1994 deaths French geographers White Russian emigrants to France Urban geographers Fellows of the British Academy Johns Hopkins University faculty University of Paris alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France The Century Foundation Victoria