Ronald Horvath

Ronald J. Horvath (born 1937) has made contributions to the study of colonialism, African development, and urban geography of Sydney, Los Angeles, Detroit and Addis Ababa.

Horvath was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and educated at California State University, Long Beach (B.A., 1960) and UCLA (MA 1961, PhD 1966).

He taught geography at the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney from 1976 to 1996 before retiring as senior lecturer.

On returning to the US and publishing in these areas he was soon involved in support for political change and civil rights, and until the early 1970s applied himself to questions of colonialism, race, and poverty in American society.

Automobile territory in modern American cities exemplifies the concept of machine space."