Brian Joe Lobley Berry (16 February 1934 – 2 January 2025) was a British-American human geographer and city and regional planner. He was the Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Jan 14, 2025 · Dr. Brian Berry, professor emeritus of economic, political and policy sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas and a geographer renowned for his influential work in urban and regional research, died Jan. 2 at the age of 90.

Dr. Brian Berry, Professor Emeritus of Economic, Political and Policy sciences at UT Dallas, passed away on January 2, 2025, at the age of 90.

Dr. Brian J. L. Berry, dean of the School of Social Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and one of the world’s leading social scientists, has been selected a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), the professional arm of the American Planning Association (APA).

Brian Berry is widely acclaimed as one of a small number of innovative and highly influential scholars who inaugurated the application of quantitative methods of spatial analysis in Anglo-American human geography in the middle of the twentieth century.

In a career that has spanned more than 60 years, Dr. Brian Berry has helped change the fields of geography and urban studies by focusing on quantitative analysis and geospatial information sciences (GIS).

The Functional Bases of the Central Place Hierarchy. Spatial Analysis. A Reader in Statistical Geography.

Brian Joe Lobley Berry, British, American geographer, urban planner, political economist, educator. Named Lord of Hastingleigh, County Kent, 2000, District Alumnus award in Social Sciences, University Washington, 2005, Vautrin Lud Laureate in Geography, 2005; recipient Victoria medal, Royal Geography Society, 1988, Rockefeller prize, Dartmouth ...

Dr. Brian Berry began his academic career more than 60 years ago. His early spatial analytic research helped spark the scientific revolution that occurred in geography and urban studies in the 1960s. After moving to Texas, his studies turned to long …

Brian Joe Lobley Berry (born 1934) is a British-American human geographer. He is Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas.