Douglas K. Fleming


Professor Fleming is retired from active teaching duties in June of 1992 after serving the department for 27 years.

Douglas K. Fleming was born in Hoylake near Liverpool, UK, on April 12, 1923. He graduated with a degree in geology from Princeton University in 1944. After three years of service in the US Navy, he joined the States Marine Lines Shipping Company and served in various capacities from 1946 to 1961.

In 1961 he entered the graduate program in geography at the University of Washington and completed his doctoral studies with a dissertation on "Coastal Steel Production in the European Coal and Steel Community 1953 to 1963." In 1965 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Geography in the department and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1972 and to Full Professor in 1984. In 1971-72 he received the departmental award for teaching excellence. He also held an adjunct position in the Institute of Marine Studies at the University of Washington.

In addition to his academic obligations, Douglas K. Fleming continued to serve on various boards of educational and financial institutions. His service as a director (1969-84) at the Seattle Trust and Savings Bank is particularly noted.

In addition to his remarkable teaching record, his publications remain as a lasting document of his academic achievement.

bibliography:

"Coastal Steelworks in the Common Market Countries," Geographical Review, Vol. 57 (1967):48-72. Excerpt in Parker. The Economic Geography of the Common Market. London: Longman's, 1968, pp. 63-65.

"Port Geography from Madison Avenue," The Professional Geographer, Vol. 19 (1967):9-11.

"The Common Market Today," The Journal of Geography, Vol. 66 (1967):449-453.

(with G. Krumme). "The Royal Hoesch Union," Tijdschrift voor Econ. en Soc. Geografie, Vol. 59 (1968):177-199.

"The Independent Transport Carrier in Ocean Tramp Trades," Economic Geography, Vol. 44 (1968):21-36. Reprinted in Dohrs & Sommers, (eds.), Economic Geography: Selected Readings, New York: Crowell Co., (1970):419-439.

[review] Richard S. Thoman and Edgar C. Conkling. Geography of International Trade, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967 in Economic Geography, Vol. 44 (1968):272-273.

"The Geographer and Business Society," Chapter 3 of The Geographer and Society, University of Victoria, Canada (1970):29-36.

"Spatial Interaction," Chapter 6 in P. Bacon, ed. Focus on Geography, 40th Yearbook of NCSS, Washington, D.C. (1970):147-172.

Intercontinental Flight. Department of Geography, University of Washington, 1970, 114 pages.

"Iron Ore Pelletization," Geographical Review, Vol. 61 (1971):143-145.

The European Community as a Regional System, monograph, Department of Geography, University of Washington, 1972, 218 pages. Second Printing, 1974. Supplement, 1977, 20 pages.

[review] G. Manners. The Changing World Market for Iron Ore. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1971, in Economic Geography, Vol. 48 (1972):223-225.

"The Regionalizing Ritual," The Scottish Geographical Magazine," Vol. 89 (1973):196-207. Translation in Boletim Geografico (Brazilian), No. 238 (1974):5-17. Excerpt in P. Walker. "Is There a Case for Retaining Regional Geography?" Wessex Geographer, No. 15 (1980):44-48.

"Reflections on Conventional Liner Service," Maritime Studies and Management, Vol. 1 (1974):178-190.

"The Seaport." in D.K. Fleming, Editor. Views of Washington State, Association of American Geographers, 1974, pp. 105-114.

"The Boeing 747 Project," in D.K. Fleming, Editor. Views of Washington State. Association of American Geographers, 1974, pp. 115-122.

Views of Washington State (Editor). Seattle: Association of American Geographers, 1974, 122 pages.

[review] "What year is this?" Yi-Fu Tuan. Topophilia. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1974 in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 65 (1975):315-316.

"The Philadelphia Story: 1975," Maritime Studies and Management, Vol. 3 (1975):113-116.

"Imagination of Movement," Maritime Studies and Management, Vol. 3 (1976):193-194.

An Identification and Interpretation of U.S. Air Travel Patterns, monograph, Department of Geography, University of Washington, 1976, 52 pages. Supplement (with Jody Yamanaka), 1977, 16 pp. Revised edition: U.S. Domestic Air Travel Patterns, 1980, 49 pp.

[review] T. Guzhenko. "Soviet Merchant Marine and World Shipping,"and K. Kwasniewski, "Shipping Policy of the Comecon Countries," in Marine Policy, 1/2 (1977):102-109 and Marine Policy, 1/2 (1977):110-117.

"A Concept of Flexibility," GeoJournal, Vol. 22 (1978):111-116.

[review] Marcus et al. Federal Port Policy in the United States, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1976, in Regional Science Perspectives, Vol. 8 (1978):120-122.

"The Role of the Federal Government in U.S. Maritime Transportation," in Reorganizing the Federal Effort in Oceanic and Atmospheric Affairs, Vol. 22, Special Report to the President and Congress, NACOA, Washington, D.C., 1979, pp. 45-67. Revised and reprinted in Maritime Policy and Management, Vol. 6 (1979):253-267

[review] William E. Butler. Northeast Arctic Passage and Michael Leifer. Malacca, Singapore and Indonesia, Vol. 1 and 2 of International Straits of the World. Alphen aan den Rijn, Neth.:Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1978, in Geographical Review, Vol. 70 (1980):372-374.

[review] Monnet. Memoirs. London: Collins, 1978, in Journal of Regional Science, 20/4 (1980):540-544.

"Has Airline Deregulation Succeeded?" editorial in Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland, January 8, 1981.

"Superhubs," editorial in Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland, March 3, 1981.

"Seascapes," Maritime Policy and Management, 9/1 (1982):29-33.

"Port Rivalry, Cooperation, Merger," Maritime Policy and Management, 10/3 (1983):207-210.

[review] Alexander J. Yeats. Shipping and Development Policy: An Integrated Assessment. New York, Praeger, 1981, in Journal of Regional Science, 23/1 (1983):130-132.

(with Jonathan Mayer). "Transportation Costs: Revised Perspectives," in Transport Geography and Geography, Papers and Proceedings of Paris meeting of IGU Working Group on Geography of Transport, Rome, 1983, pp. 215-227.

"Cartographic Strategies for Airline Advertising," Geographical Review, 74/1 (1984):77-93.

[review] George W. Hoffman (ed.). A Geography of Europe: Problems and Prospects. New York: J. Wiley, 1983, in Soviet Geography, 25 (1984):450-452.

"Safe Harbors," Maritime Policy and Management, 13/1 (1986):17-25.

"The Essence of a Seaport: A North American View," essay in honor of the retirement of André Vigarié, University of Nantes, in Transports et Communication: Ports et Mers. Caen, Paradigme, 1986, pp. 141-146.

"Strategy Makes the Future", an editorial in Marine Digest, (Dec. 13, 1986) pp. 11-13.

"The Port Community," Maritime Policy and Management, 14/4 (1987):321-336.

"The Port Community: Seaport Character and Public/Private Tensions," Chap. 3, pp. 57-76 in Marc Hershman (ed.). Urban Ports and Harbor Management. London: Taylor & Francis, 1988.

"The U.S. Maritime Dilemma: Skaarup's View," an editorial in Maritime Policy and Management, 15/4 (1988):265-267. Reprinted in FACS Forum (Federation of American Controlled Shipping), March, 1989.

"On the Beaten Track: A View of U.S. West Coast Container Port Competition," Maritime Policy and Management, 16/2 (1989):93-107.

"Identification of the Shipping District in New York, Houston and Seattle," Geoforum, 20/4 (1989):469-485.

[review] B. S. Hoyle, D. Pinder, M. S. Husain (eds.). Revitalizing the Waterfront, London-New York: Belhaven Press, 1988, in Urban Studies, 26/6 (1989):644-645.

"The Rise of the Pacific Hemisphere," editorial in Pacific Hemisphere (Federal Express Magazine), Spring 1990. (Japanese and Chinese translations).

(with Richard Roth) "Place in Advertising," Geographical Review, 81/3 (1991):281-29