Geography is a science, but it is also an art, because understanding the meaning of area cannot be reduced to a formal process. The highest form of the geographer's art is producing good regional geography- evocative descriptions that facilitate an understanding and an appreciation of places, areas, and regions.
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The paper is based on Harts Presidential address delivered at the Seventy Seventh Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles, California, on April 21, 1981