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was organizing sessions on regional development at its annual conference. At the 1950 American
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interdisciplinary, and it required some novel concepts, data, and techniques. As part of the effort to develop regional science Isard found himself at the center of a network of scholars from economics, city planning, political science, sociology, and geography.
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concepts, techniques and data. In 1977 Isard stepped down as chair of the department of regional science at Penn in order to devote more time to peace science, and moved to
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