Human geography is in a unique position to understand how local structural factors shape
social, political, and ultimately economic outcomes. Indeed, the discipline has had much to …

Explaining the growth and change of regions and cities is one of the great challenges for
social science. The field of economic geography and associated economics has developed …

Over the past decade, economic geography has undergone something of a renaissance,
expanding its theoretical foundations, methodologies, and empirical reach considerably in …

Urban and regional development theory is largely rooted in explanations based on the
location, agglomeration and organisation of firms, industries and capital. Contemporary …

Although economic geography has existed as an identifiable subdiscipline for close on a
century, it is only since the Second World War that its intellectual history has been closely …

Anglophone economic geography has been a central component of human geography for
the last 150 years. It is concerned with empirically describing and theoretically explaining …

Something funny happened in the early 1980s. The region, long considered an interesting
topic to historians and geographers, but not considered to have any interest for mainstream …

Identifies limitations of the new economic geographies and outlines holistic framework
focusing on urban development and regional development. Several claims to the new …

Recent theoretical and empirical advances in economic geography have contributed to the
emergence of what might be termed a “relational turn” that focuses primarily on the ways in …

The turbulence of the current times has dramatically transformed the world's economic
geographies. The scale and scope of such changes require urgent attention. With …