John Cole (geographer)

John Peter Cole (b. 1928, Sydney, Australia) is a British geographer.

He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1950. He later returned there to join the staff of the Geography Department, rising to become Professor of Urban and Regional Geography. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Geography at the university.

Since 1957 he has written or co-authored over 25 books on geography.

Bibliography

• Geography of World Affairs (1959, several later editions)
• Quantitative Geography: Techniques and Theories in Geography (with C. A. M. King) (1968)
• New Ways in Geography: A Guide for Teachers (with N. J. Beynon) (1969)
• Latin America: An Economic and Social Geography (1975)
• Situations in Human Geography: A Practical Approach (1978)
• Regional Inequality in Services and Purchasing Power in the USSR, 1940-1976 (with M. E. Harrison) (1978)
• Peru, 1940-2000: Performance and Prospects (with P. M. Mather) (1978)
• The Development Gap: A Spatial Analysis of World Poverty and Inequality (1981)
• Geography of the Soviet Union (1984)
• China 1950-2000: Performance and Prospects (1985)
• Development and Underdevelopment: A Profile of the Third World (1987)
• Modern Soviet Economic Performance (with Trevor Buck) (1987)
• Geography of the World's Major Regions (1996)
• A Geography of the European Union (with Francis Cole) (1997)