Editing Regional science (section)

===Criticisms===
Today there are dwindling numbers of regional scientists from academic [[planning]] programs and mainstream [[geography]] departments. Attacks on regional science's practitioners by radical critics began as early as the 1970s, notably [[David Harvey (geographer)|David Harvey]] who believed it lacked social and political commitment. Regional science's founder, Walter Isard, never envisioned regional scientists would be political or planning activists. In fact, he suggested that they will seek to be sitting in front of a computer and surrounded by research assistants. [[Trevor J. Barnes]] suggests the decline of regional science practice among planners and geographers in North America could have been avoided. He says "It is unreflective, and consequently inured to change, because of a commitment to a God’s eye view. It is so convinced of its own rightness, of its Archimedean position, that it remained aloof and invariant, rather than being sensitive to its changing local context."<ref>Barnes in ''Canadian J of Reg. Sci''. [http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~tbarnes/CSRA%20new.doc 1]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050310040429/http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~tbarnes/CSRA%20new.doc |date=March 10, 2005 }}</ref>
However, such critics have failed to provide empirical evidence for their claims and ended up criticizing for the sake of criticizing.