STUDIES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Michael Chisholm | Brian Rodgers (Eds.)

There is no doubt that geography, along with other disciplines in the social and other sciences, has experienced a major change of outlook and method in the last decade or so. Some observers have described the changes as a quantitative revolution and it is indeed true that geography now ranks among the more numerate of the social sciences.

But the change runs much deeper than merely applying more sophisticated techniques to familiar problems: the problems chosen for geographical study have also changed. At the same time, there has been rapid growth in the number of geographical practitioners and the volume of publication. There is, thus, an urgent need periodically to take stock of progress and it is for this purpose that Studies in Human Geography has been prepared. The topics selected for discussion display the wide range of work done by geographers – from problems of economic development at the international scale to questions of urban growth in Britain, from policy in oriented matters of regional development to the relatively ‘academic’ study of social groups within cities.

The authors present their material in a manner that will enable the non-geographer to understand readily what it is that geographers do, but nevertheless provide a synoptic view of activities that will surely be of great value to those in the profession, whether in universities, technical colleges or schools