Books in the Cambridge Human Geography series

This 1986 book offers a detailed analysis of relationships between crime and social trends in Britain. Smith focuses on the victims of crime, fear and anxiety through ethnographic fieldwork, local and national victim surveys. This book made an original contribution to social theory and pays particular attention to the role of the police.

This book was the first detailed and systematic account of the property and construction sectors of the British economy. Developing out of a materialist theoretical perspective, Dr Smyth provides an alternative explanation of the different characteristics of the two sectors and rejects traditional notions of the 'backwardness' of the construction sector.

This book, originally published in 1988, provides an account of an analysis of British planning in practice, as observed through empirical research including a range of case studies.

The issue of private landlordism in Britain touches a raw political nerve. There is no shortage of prescription as to what should be done with the rented housing market and private landlords. Yet surprisingly little is known about the structure and diversity of private landlordism and the variety of private tenants' housing needs - a prerequisite for policy intervention.

The authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of colonial and post-colonial experience in Fiji.

Focusing upon Greater Athens between 1948 and 1981 - the crucial period of the transition - Lila Leontidou explores the role of social classes in urban development.

The essential argument of this book is that the current crisis of US unions ought to be considered in terms of the local context of labor-management relations; that is, the communities in which men and women live and work. Whether by design or necessity, the structure of New Deal national labor legislation has sustained, and maintained, distinctive local labor-management practices.

Argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.

A work of outstanding originality and importance, which will become a cornerstone in the philosophy of geography, this book asks: What is human science? Is a truly human science of geography possible? What notions of spatiality adequately describe human spatial experience and behaviour? The author draws upon the works, of Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer and Kockelmans in particular.