Cities provide for people, not just functionally in terms of jobs, obligations and practical
pursuits, but also, and above all, emotionally. We like some cities and detest others. Despite …

The fifth edition of this text presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the
urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring …

The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have
recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in …

An old axiom in urban sociology considers space as a reflection of society. Like life itself,
cities are always too complex to be captured in axioms. Thus, the close relationship between …

The article argues that the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the global economy as
being subject to 'command and control'results from that contention being a neo‐M arxist …

The emergence of urban tech economies calls attention to the multidimensional spatiality of
ecosystems made up of people and organizations that produce new digital technology …

The recent phenomenon of the export zone attracts scholarly attention primarily for its
economic and political logics, yet it is as a cultural phenomenon that the Zone may ultimately …

This article offers a theoretical framework for thinking about how organizations matter for the
production, reproduction, and amelioration of urban poverty. We draw on the classical …

This excerpt is from the introduction to the edited collection Beyond the City Limits. John
Logan and Todd Swanstrom developed the volume as a response to the major economic …

For the past 20 years, researches using the lens of world system theory (and other global
political economy perspectives) have come to a better understanding of many of the …