Trevor Barnes is a professor and University Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia where he has been since 1983. He is the author or editor of 13 books, the most recent with Brett Christophers, Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction (2018). His research interests are in economic geography and in the history and methodology of geography. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy, Distinguished University Scholar, and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Previously, he was a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Manchester. With research interests in urban restructuring, geographical political economy, labor studies, the politics of policy formation and mobility, and economic geography, he is currently working on theories of capitalist restructuring and the political economy of neoliberalization. His recent books include Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing (2017, Oxford), Fast Policy: Experimental statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism (2015, Minnesota, with Nik Theodore), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography (2012, Wiley-Blackwell, coedited with Trevor Barnes & Eric Sheppard), and Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (2010, Oxford). Jamie Peck is the managing editor of EPA: Economy and Space and the editor in chief of the Environment and Planning journals.Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University.

• VOLUME ONE: CITIES AND REGIONSProduction, Consumption, Networks′It′s Gotta Be Da Shoes′: Domestic Manufacturing, International Subcontracting, and the Production of Athletic Footwear - Richard Barff and Jonathan AustenExternal Control and Regional Development: The Case of Scotland - John Firn The Technopoles of Southern California - Allen ScottWhither Global Production Networks in Economic Geography? Past, Present, and Future - Martin Hess and Henry Wai-Chung YeungDisplacement, Consumption, and Identity - Philip CrangUnderstanding Alternative Food Networks: Exploring the Role of Short Food Supply Chains in Rural Development - Henk Renting, Terry Marsden and Jo Banks The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a Mexican Maquiladora - Melissa WrightNature, Environment, EcologiesAt the End of Nature: Cyborgs, ′Humachines′, and Environments in Postmodernity - Timothy LukeFirst World Political Ecology: Lessons from the Wise Use Movement - James McCarthyBack to the Land: The Paradox of Organic Food Standards - Julie GuthmanPower, Nature, and the City: The Conquest of Water and the Political Ecology of Urbanization in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1880 - 1990 - Erik SwyngedouwPimping Climate Change: Richard Branson, Global Warming, and the Performance of Green Capitalism - Scott PrudhamStrategy, Regulation, GovernanceCorporate Strategy and Corporate Strategists: Power, Identity, and Knowledge within the Firm - Erica SchoenbergerEmbedded Statism - Peter Taylor′Real′ Regulation: The Administrative State - Gordon ClarkTowards a Schumpeterian Workfare Regime in Britain? Reflections on Regulation, Governance, and Welfare State - Bob JessopTrojan Pig: Paradoxes of Food Safety Regulation - Elizabeth DunnGlobalization, Regionalization, LocalityFrom Localised Social Structures to Localities as Agents - Kevin Cox and Andrew MairThe Political Place of Locality Studies - David MasseyRegional and Interregional Interdependencies: Alternative Accounting Systems - Geoffrey HewingsThe Elusive Concept of Localization Economies: Towards a Knowledge-Based Theory of Spatial Clustering - Anders Malmberg and Peter MaskellGlobalization and the Production of New Urban Spaces: Pacific Rim Megaprojects in the Late 20th Century - Kris OldsDeconstructing Regions: Notes on the Scales of Spatial Life - Annssi PaasiSpatialities of Globalisation - Ash AminVOLUME TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGNBuilding MorphologiesThe Palladian Grammar - George Stiny and William Mitchell The Bungalows of Buffalo - F Downing and U Flemming A Palladian Construction Grammar - Design Reasoning with Shape Grammars and Rapid Prototyping - Larry Sass Architectural Morphospace: Mapping Worlds of Built Forms - Philip Steadman and Linda Mitchell Urban Flows, Forms and FieldsTo Take Hold of Space: Isovists and Isovist Fields - Michael BenediktFrom Isovists to Visibility Graphs: A Methodology for the Analysis of Architectural Space - Alasdair Turner et alA Statistical Examination of Visual Depth in Building Elevations - Andrew Crompton and Frank BrownNatural Movement: Or, Configuration and Attraction in Urban Pedestrian Movement - Bill Hillier et alSelf-Organizing Pedestrian Movement - Dirk Helbing et al The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Primal Approach - Sergio Porta, Paolo Crucitti and Vito LatoraUrban SimulationGraph-Cellular Automata: A Generalised Discrete Urban and Regional Model - David O′SullivanA Self-Modifying Cellular Automaton Model of Historical Urbanization in the San Francisco Bay Area - Keith Clarke, Stacy Hoppen and Leonard Gaydos SIMPOP: A Multiagent System for the Study of Urbanism - Lena Sanders et alUrban Settlement Transitions - Claes Andersson, Steen Rasmussen and Roger WhiteBuilding a City In Vitro: The Experiment and the Simulation Model - Erez Hatna and Itzhak Benenson Planning and Design ProcessesEvolution, Modelling and Design in a Complex World - Peter Allen The Myth of Rationality: Development Planning Reconsidered - Melvin Webber To Plan or Not to Plan, that is the Question: Transaction Cost Theory and its Implications for Planning - Ernest Alexander Planning as Argumentation - Harvey Goldstein Structure of a Planning Support System for Urban Development - Lewis Hopkins Interactive Multimedia Planning Support: Moving from Stand-Alone Systems to the World Wide Web - Michael Shiffer VOLUME THREE: GOVERNMENT AND POLICYDecentralization The Global Trend towards Devolution and its Implications - Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Nicholas GillClosing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations - Richard Bird and Andrey TarasovLocal Government Systems: From Historic Divergence towards Convergence? Great Britain, France, and Germany as Comparative Cases in Point - Hellmut WollmannEnvironmental PolicyOn the ′Efficient Boundaries of the State′: The Contribution of Transaction-Costs Economics to the Analysis of Decentralization and Devolution in Natural Resource Management - Regina Birner and Heidi WittmerEuropeanisation and the Uneven Convergence of Environmental Policy: Explaining the Geography of EMAS - Richard Perkins and Eric NeumayerParticipatory Methods for Water Resources Planning - Giorgos Kallis et alGoverning Space: Planning Reform and the Politics of Sustainability - Richard Cowell and Susan OwensEnvironmental Governance The Governance of Sustainable Development: Taking Stock and Looking Forwards - Andrew Jordan Corporations and the Governance of Environmental Risk - Andrew Gouldson and Jan BebbingtonRepresenting People, Representing Nature, Representing the World - John O′NeillUrban Policies and RegimesUrban Regime Theory in Comparative Perspective - Gerry Stoker and Karen MossbergerThe Rise of Urban Growth Coalitions, UK-Style? - Alan HardingThe Urban Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities - Christine KessidesUrban Processes in the Face of China′s Transition to a Socialist Market Economy - Fulong WuIntergovernmental Social Transfers and the Welfare State: Menace or Promise? - Douglas AshfordLocal Economic Development Policy Cities and Regions Competing in the Global Economy: Knowledge and Local Development Policies - Edward MaleckiThe Molecular Biology Revolution and the Rise of Bioscience Megacentres in North America and Europe - Philip CookeInstitutional Innovations, Asymmetric Decentralization, and Local Economic Development: A Case Study of Kunshan, in Post-Mao China - Shiuh-Shen ChienThe Restructuring of Municipal Services: A Canada - United States Comparison - Robert Hebdon and Patrice JaletteSmall Businesses Policy and Regulation The Public Choice Approach to Tax Reform - Geoffrey BrennanModelling the Impact of Taxation on the Small-Business Economy: The Natwest/MBS Tax Index for the Self-Employed, Sole-Traders, and Partnerships - P Panikkos Poutziouris, Francis Chittenden and Nicos MichaelasSME Policy Support in Britain since the 1990s: What Have We Learnt? - Robert BennettVOLUME FOUR: SOCIETY AND SPACECorporeal CartographiesPower, Space, and the Body: A Critical Assessment of Foucault′s Discipline And Punish - Felix DriverThe Body in Theory - Felicity CallardBodies and Spaces: An Exploration of Disabled People′s Experiences of Public Space - Ruth Butler and Sophia BowlbyA Corporeal Geography of Consumption - Gill Valentine Gender and PerformativityGender, Class, and Space - Gerry Pratt and Susan HansonBoys Town - Rosalyn DeutscheTaking Butler Elsewhere: Performativities, Spatialities and Subjectivities - Nicky Gregson and Gillian RoseHuman and Non-Human Landscapes(Re)Reading the Landscape - Jim Duncan and Nancy DuncanAnimals, Geography, and the City: Notes on Inclusions and Exclusions - Chris PhiloBurning Cities: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts - Adrian FranklinWhere Eagles Dare: An Ethno-Fable with Personal Landfill - Shiloh Krupar Political EconomiesPostmodernism in Economic Geography: Metaphor and the Construction of Alterity - Trevor Barnes and Michael CurryGeographies of Consumption: A Commodity-Chain Approach - Elaine HartwickTransnational Hegemony and US Labor Foreign Policy: Towards a Gramscian International Labor Geography - Jim GlassmanHawala Discourses and the War on Terrorist Finance - Marieke de Goede Geopolitics(Dis)Placing Geopolitics: Writing on the Maps of Global Politics - Gearóid Ó TuathailMapping Schengenland: Denaturalizing the Border - William WaltersFrom Arab Land to ′Israel Lands′: The Legal Dispossession of the Palestinians Displaced by Israel in the Wake of 1948 - Geremy Forman and Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar Justice and the Geographies of Moral Protest: Reflections from Mexico - Melissa WrightVOLUME FIVE: FOUNDATIONSThe CityTaking Los Angeles Apart: Some Fragments of a Critical Human Geography - Edward Soja Governing Cities: Notes on the Spatialisation of Virtue - Thomas Osborne and Nikolas RoseRetrieving the Baby from the Bathwater: Slum Upgrading in Sub-Saharan Africa - Sumila Gulyani and Ellen BassettUrban Transformation in China, 1949 - 2000: A Review and Research Agenda - Laurence MaSpace and Social TheoryTheorizing Sociospatial Relations - Bob Jessop, Neil Brenner and Martin JonesCrisis, Planning, and the Quality of Life: Managing the New Historical Relationships between Space and Society - Manuel Castells ′Deconstructing′ Architects′ Houses - Julienne Hanson Actor-Networks and the Evolution of Economic Forms: Combining Description and Explanation in Theories of Regulation, Flexible Specialization, and Networks - Jonathan MurdochThe New Mobilities Paradigm - Mimi Sheller and John UrryPlanning Theory and PracticeBetween Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of US Planning - Robert Beauregard Strategic (Spatial) Planning Reexamined - Louis Albrechts Building Institutional Capacity through Collaborative Approaches to Urban Planning - Patsy HealeyIndividual Determinants of Participation in Community Development in Indonesia - Victoria BeardModelsDesign Machines - George Stiny and Lionel MarchOn the Description of Shape and Spatial Configuration inside Buildings: Convex Partitions and their Local Properties - John Peponis et alEquilibrium Values and Dynamics of Attractiveness Terms in Production-Constrained Spatial-Interaction Models - B Harris and A G WilsonModelling the Local Impacts of National Social Policies: A Spatial Microsimulation Approach - Dimitris Ballas and Graham ClarkeNew EconomiesMoral Money? LETS and the Social Construction of Local Economic Geographies in Southeast England - Roger Lee The Internet and the Rise of the New Network Cities, 1969 - 1999 - Anthony TownsendIndustry Building as Contested Market Building: Knowledge, Politics, and the Rise of Beijing in China′s Virtual Economy - Jun ZhangUniversities, Innovation, and Territorial Development: A Review of the Evidence - Helen Lawton Smith

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Trevor Barnes is a professor and University Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia where he has been since 1983. He is the author or editor of 13 books, the most recent with Brett Christophers, Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction (2018). His research interests are in economic geography and in the history and methodology of geography. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy, Distinguished University Scholar, and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Previously, he was a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Manchester. With research interests in urban restructuring, geographical political economy, labor studies, the politics of policy formation and mobility, and economic geography, he is currently working on theories of capitalist restructuring and the political economy of neoliberalization. His recent books include Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing (2017, Oxford), Fast Policy: Experimental statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism (2015, Minnesota, with Nik Theodore), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography (2012, Wiley-Blackwell, coedited with Trevor Barnes & Eric Sheppard), and Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (2010, Oxford). Jamie Peck is the managing editor of EPA: Economy and Space and the editor in chief of the Environment and Planning journals.Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University.

• VOLUME ONE: CITIES AND REGIONSProduction, Consumption, Networks′It′s Gotta Be Da Shoes′: Domestic Manufacturing, International Subcontracting, and the Production of Athletic Footwear - Richard Barff and Jonathan AustenExternal Control and Regional Development: The Case of Scotland - John Firn The Technopoles of Southern California - Allen ScottWhither Global Production Networks in Economic Geography? Past, Present, and Future - Martin Hess and Henry Wai-Chung YeungDisplacement, Consumption, and Identity - Philip CrangUnderstanding Alternative Food Networks: Exploring the Role of Short Food Supply Chains in Rural Development - Henk Renting, Terry Marsden and Jo Banks The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a Mexican Maquiladora - Melissa WrightNature, Environment, EcologiesAt the End of Nature: Cyborgs, ′Humachines′, and Environments in Postmodernity - Timothy LukeFirst World Political Ecology: Lessons from the Wise Use Movement - James McCarthyBack to the Land: The Paradox of Organic Food Standards - Julie GuthmanPower, Nature, and the City: The Conquest of Water and the Political Ecology of Urbanization in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1880 - 1990 - Erik SwyngedouwPimping Climate Change: Richard Branson, Global Warming, and the Performance of Green Capitalism - Scott PrudhamStrategy, Regulation, GovernanceCorporate Strategy and Corporate Strategists: Power, Identity, and Knowledge within the Firm - Erica SchoenbergerEmbedded Statism - Peter Taylor′Real′ Regulation: The Administrative State - Gordon ClarkTowards a Schumpeterian Workfare Regime in Britain? Reflections on Regulation, Governance, and Welfare State - Bob JessopTrojan Pig: Paradoxes of Food Safety Regulation - Elizabeth DunnGlobalization, Regionalization, LocalityFrom Localised Social Structures to Localities as Agents - Kevin Cox and Andrew MairThe Political Place of Locality Studies - David MasseyRegional and Interregional Interdependencies: Alternative Accounting Systems - Geoffrey HewingsThe Elusive Concept of Localization Economies: Towards a Knowledge-Based Theory of Spatial Clustering - Anders Malmberg and Peter MaskellGlobalization and the Production of New Urban Spaces: Pacific Rim Megaprojects in the Late 20th Century - Kris OldsDeconstructing Regions: Notes on the Scales of Spatial Life - Annssi PaasiSpatialities of Globalisation - Ash AminVOLUME TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGNBuilding MorphologiesThe Palladian Grammar - George Stiny and William Mitchell The Bungalows of Buffalo - F Downing and U Flemming A Palladian Construction Grammar - Design Reasoning with Shape Grammars and Rapid Prototyping - Larry Sass Architectural Morphospace: Mapping Worlds of Built Forms - Philip Steadman and Linda Mitchell Urban Flows, Forms and FieldsTo Take Hold of Space: Isovists and Isovist Fields - Michael BenediktFrom Isovists to Visibility Graphs: A Methodology for the Analysis of Architectural Space - Alasdair Turner et alA Statistical Examination of Visual Depth in Building Elevations - Andrew Crompton and Frank BrownNatural Movement: Or, Configuration and Attraction in Urban Pedestrian Movement - Bill Hillier et alSelf-Organizing Pedestrian Movement - Dirk Helbing et al The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Primal Approach - Sergio Porta, Paolo Crucitti and Vito LatoraUrban SimulationGraph-Cellular Automata: A Generalised Discrete Urban and Regional Model - David O′SullivanA Self-Modifying Cellular Automaton Model of Historical Urbanization in the San Francisco Bay Area - Keith Clarke, Stacy Hoppen and Leonard Gaydos SIMPOP: A Multiagent System for the Study of Urbanism - Lena Sanders et alUrban Settlement Transitions - Claes Andersson, Steen Rasmussen and Roger WhiteBuilding a City In Vitro: The Experiment and the Simulation Model - Erez Hatna and Itzhak Benenson Planning and Design ProcessesEvolution, Modelling and Design in a Complex World - Peter Allen The Myth of Rationality: Development Planning Reconsidered - Melvin Webber To Plan or Not to Plan, that is the Question: Transaction Cost Theory and its Implications for Planning - Ernest Alexander Planning as Argumentation - Harvey Goldstein Structure of a Planning Support System for Urban Development - Lewis Hopkins Interactive Multimedia Planning Support: Moving from Stand-Alone Systems to the World Wide Web - Michael Shiffer VOLUME THREE: GOVERNMENT AND POLICYDecentralization The Global Trend towards Devolution and its Implications - Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Nicholas GillClosing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations - Richard Bird and Andrey TarasovLocal Government Systems: From Historic Divergence towards Convergence? Great Britain, France, and Germany as Comparative Cases in Point - Hellmut WollmannEnvironmental PolicyOn the ′Efficient Boundaries of the State′: The Contribution of Transaction-Costs Economics to the Analysis of Decentralization and Devolution in Natural Resource Management - Regina Birner and Heidi WittmerEuropeanisation and the Uneven Convergence of Environmental Policy: Explaining the Geography of EMAS - Richard Perkins and Eric NeumayerParticipatory Methods for Water Resources Planning - Giorgos Kallis et alGoverning Space: Planning Reform and the Politics of Sustainability - Richard Cowell and Susan OwensEnvironmental Governance The Governance of Sustainable Development: Taking Stock and Looking Forwards - Andrew Jordan Corporations and the Governance of Environmental Risk - Andrew Gouldson and Jan BebbingtonRepresenting People, Representing Nature, Representing the World - John O′NeillUrban Policies and RegimesUrban Regime Theory in Comparative Perspective - Gerry Stoker and Karen MossbergerThe Rise of Urban Growth Coalitions, UK-Style? - Alan HardingThe Urban Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities - Christine KessidesUrban Processes in the Face of China′s Transition to a Socialist Market Economy - Fulong WuIntergovernmental Social Transfers and the Welfare State: Menace or Promise? - Douglas AshfordLocal Economic Development Policy Cities and Regions Competing in the Global Economy: Knowledge and Local Development Policies - Edward MaleckiThe Molecular Biology Revolution and the Rise of Bioscience Megacentres in North America and Europe - Philip CookeInstitutional Innovations, Asymmetric Decentralization, and Local Economic Development: A Case Study of Kunshan, in Post-Mao China - Shiuh-Shen ChienThe Restructuring of Municipal Services: A Canada - United States Comparison - Robert Hebdon and Patrice JaletteSmall Businesses Policy and Regulation The Public Choice Approach to Tax Reform - Geoffrey BrennanModelling the Impact of Taxation on the Small-Business Economy: The Natwest/MBS Tax Index for the Self-Employed, Sole-Traders, and Partnerships - P Panikkos Poutziouris, Francis Chittenden and Nicos MichaelasSME Policy Support in Britain since the 1990s: What Have We Learnt? - Robert BennettVOLUME FOUR: SOCIETY AND SPACECorporeal CartographiesPower, Space, and the Body: A Critical Assessment of Foucault′s Discipline And Punish - Felix DriverThe Body in Theory - Felicity CallardBodies and Spaces: An Exploration of Disabled People′s Experiences of Public Space - Ruth Butler and Sophia BowlbyA Corporeal Geography of Consumption - Gill Valentine Gender and PerformativityGender, Class, and Space - Gerry Pratt and Susan HansonBoys Town - Rosalyn DeutscheTaking Butler Elsewhere: Performativities, Spatialities and Subjectivities - Nicky Gregson and Gillian RoseHuman and Non-Human Landscapes(Re)Reading the Landscape - Jim Duncan and Nancy DuncanAnimals, Geography, and the City: Notes on Inclusions and Exclusions - Chris PhiloBurning Cities: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts - Adrian FranklinWhere Eagles Dare: An Ethno-Fable with Personal Landfill - Shiloh Krupar Political EconomiesPostmodernism in Economic Geography: Metaphor and the Construction of Alterity - Trevor Barnes and Michael CurryGeographies of Consumption: A Commodity-Chain Approach - Elaine HartwickTransnational Hegemony and US Labor Foreign Policy: Towards a Gramscian International Labor Geography - Jim GlassmanHawala Discourses and the War on Terrorist Finance - Marieke de Goede Geopolitics(Dis)Placing Geopolitics: Writing on the Maps of Global Politics - Gearóid Ó TuathailMapping Schengenland: Denaturalizing the Border - William WaltersFrom Arab Land to ′Israel Lands′: The Legal Dispossession of the Palestinians Displaced by Israel in the Wake of 1948 - Geremy Forman and Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar Justice and the Geographies of Moral Protest: Reflections from Mexico - Melissa WrightVOLUME FIVE: FOUNDATIONSThe CityTaking Los Angeles Apart: Some Fragments of a Critical Human Geography - Edward Soja Governing Cities: Notes on the Spatialisation of Virtue - Thomas Osborne and Nikolas RoseRetrieving the Baby from the Bathwater: Slum Upgrading in Sub-Saharan Africa - Sumila Gulyani and Ellen BassettUrban Transformation in China, 1949 - 2000: A Review and Research Agenda - Laurence MaSpace and Social TheoryTheorizing Sociospatial Relations - Bob Jessop, Neil Brenner and Martin JonesCrisis, Planning, and the Quality of Life: Managing the New Historical Relationships between Space and Society - Manuel Castells ′Deconstructing′ Architects′ Houses - Julienne Hanson Actor-Networks and the Evolution of Economic Forms: Combining Description and Explanation in Theories of Regulation, Flexible Specialization, and Networks - Jonathan MurdochThe New Mobilities Paradigm - Mimi Sheller and John UrryPlanning Theory and PracticeBetween Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of US Planning - Robert Beauregard Strategic (Spatial) Planning Reexamined - Louis Albrechts Building Institutional Capacity through Collaborative Approaches to Urban Planning - Patsy HealeyIndividual Determinants of Participation in Community Development in Indonesia - Victoria BeardModelsDesign Machines - George Stiny and Lionel MarchOn the Description of Shape and Spatial Configuration inside Buildings: Convex Partitions and their Local Properties - John Peponis et alEquilibrium Values and Dynamics of Attractiveness Terms in Production-Constrained Spatial-Interaction Models - B Harris and A G WilsonModelling the Local Impacts of National Social Policies: A Spatial Microsimulation Approach - Dimitris Ballas and Graham ClarkeNew EconomiesMoral Money? LETS and the Social Construction of Local Economic Geographies in Southeast England - Roger Lee The Internet and the Rise of the New Network Cities, 1969 - 1999 - Anthony TownsendIndustry Building as Contested Market Building: Knowledge, Politics, and the Rise of Beijing in China′s Virtual Economy - Jun ZhangUniversities, Innovation, and Territorial Development: A Review of the Evidence - Helen Lawton Smith

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Trevor Barnes is a professor and University Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia where he has been since 1983. He is the author or editor of 13 books, the most recent with Brett Christophers, Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction (2018). His research interests are in economic geography and in the history and methodology of geography. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy, Distinguished University Scholar, and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Previously, he was a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Manchester. With research interests in urban restructuring, geographical political economy, labor studies, the politics of policy formation and mobility, and economic geography, he is currently working on theories of capitalist restructuring and the political economy of neoliberalization. His recent books include Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing (2017, Oxford), Fast Policy: Experimental statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism (2015, Minnesota, with Nik Theodore), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography (2012, Wiley-Blackwell, coedited with Trevor Barnes & Eric Sheppard), and Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (2010, Oxford). Jamie Peck is the managing editor of EPA: Economy and Space and the editor in chief of the Environment and Planning journals.Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University.

• VOLUME ONE: CITIES AND REGIONSProduction, Consumption, Networks′It′s Gotta Be Da Shoes′: Domestic Manufacturing, International Subcontracting, and the Production of Athletic Footwear - Richard Barff and Jonathan AustenExternal Control and Regional Development: The Case of Scotland - John Firn The Technopoles of Southern California - Allen ScottWhither Global Production Networks in Economic Geography? Past, Present, and Future - Martin Hess and Henry Wai-Chung YeungDisplacement, Consumption, and Identity - Philip CrangUnderstanding Alternative Food Networks: Exploring the Role of Short Food Supply Chains in Rural Development - Henk Renting, Terry Marsden and Jo Banks The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a Mexican Maquiladora - Melissa WrightNature, Environment, EcologiesAt the End of Nature: Cyborgs, ′Humachines′, and Environments in Postmodernity - Timothy LukeFirst World Political Ecology: Lessons from the Wise Use Movement - James McCarthyBack to the Land: The Paradox of Organic Food Standards - Julie GuthmanPower, Nature, and the City: The Conquest of Water and the Political Ecology of Urbanization in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1880 - 1990 - Erik SwyngedouwPimping Climate Change: Richard Branson, Global Warming, and the Performance of Green Capitalism - Scott PrudhamStrategy, Regulation, GovernanceCorporate Strategy and Corporate Strategists: Power, Identity, and Knowledge within the Firm - Erica SchoenbergerEmbedded Statism - Peter Taylor′Real′ Regulation: The Administrative State - Gordon ClarkTowards a Schumpeterian Workfare Regime in Britain? Reflections on Regulation, Governance, and Welfare State - Bob JessopTrojan Pig: Paradoxes of Food Safety Regulation - Elizabeth DunnGlobalization, Regionalization, LocalityFrom Localised Social Structures to Localities as Agents - Kevin Cox and Andrew MairThe Political Place of Locality Studies - David MasseyRegional and Interregional Interdependencies: Alternative Accounting Systems - Geoffrey HewingsThe Elusive Concept of Localization Economies: Towards a Knowledge-Based Theory of Spatial Clustering - Anders Malmberg and Peter MaskellGlobalization and the Production of New Urban Spaces: Pacific Rim Megaprojects in the Late 20th Century - Kris OldsDeconstructing Regions: Notes on the Scales of Spatial Life - Annssi PaasiSpatialities of Globalisation - Ash AminVOLUME TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGNBuilding MorphologiesThe Palladian Grammar - George Stiny and William Mitchell The Bungalows of Buffalo - F Downing and U Flemming A Palladian Construction Grammar - Design Reasoning with Shape Grammars and Rapid Prototyping - Larry Sass Architectural Morphospace: Mapping Worlds of Built Forms - Philip Steadman and Linda Mitchell Urban Flows, Forms and FieldsTo Take Hold of Space: Isovists and Isovist Fields - Michael BenediktFrom Isovists to Visibility Graphs: A Methodology for the Analysis of Architectural Space - Alasdair Turner et alA Statistical Examination of Visual Depth in Building Elevations - Andrew Crompton and Frank BrownNatural Movement: Or, Configuration and Attraction in Urban Pedestrian Movement - Bill Hillier et alSelf-Organizing Pedestrian Movement - Dirk Helbing et al The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Primal Approach - Sergio Porta, Paolo Crucitti and Vito LatoraUrban SimulationGraph-Cellular Automata: A Generalised Discrete Urban and Regional Model - David O′SullivanA Self-Modifying Cellular Automaton Model of Historical Urbanization in the San Francisco Bay Area - Keith Clarke, Stacy Hoppen and Leonard Gaydos SIMPOP: A Multiagent System for the Study of Urbanism - Lena Sanders et alUrban Settlement Transitions - Claes Andersson, Steen Rasmussen and Roger WhiteBuilding a City In Vitro: The Experiment and the Simulation Model - Erez Hatna and Itzhak Benenson Planning and Design ProcessesEvolution, Modelling and Design in a Complex World - Peter Allen The Myth of Rationality: Development Planning Reconsidered - Melvin Webber To Plan or Not to Plan, that is the Question: Transaction Cost Theory and its Implications for Planning - Ernest Alexander Planning as Argumentation - Harvey Goldstein Structure of a Planning Support System for Urban Development - Lewis Hopkins Interactive Multimedia Planning Support: Moving from Stand-Alone Systems to the World Wide Web - Michael Shiffer VOLUME THREE: GOVERNMENT AND POLICYDecentralization The Global Trend towards Devolution and its Implications - Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Nicholas GillClosing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations - Richard Bird and Andrey TarasovLocal Government Systems: From Historic Divergence towards Convergence? Great Britain, France, and Germany as Comparative Cases in Point - Hellmut WollmannEnvironmental PolicyOn the ′Efficient Boundaries of the State′: The Contribution of Transaction-Costs Economics to the Analysis of Decentralization and Devolution in Natural Resource Management - Regina Birner and Heidi WittmerEuropeanisation and the Uneven Convergence of Environmental Policy: Explaining the Geography of EMAS - Richard Perkins and Eric NeumayerParticipatory Methods for Water Resources Planning - Giorgos Kallis et alGoverning Space: Planning Reform and the Politics of Sustainability - Richard Cowell and Susan OwensEnvironmental Governance The Governance of Sustainable Development: Taking Stock and Looking Forwards - Andrew Jordan Corporations and the Governance of Environmental Risk - Andrew Gouldson and Jan BebbingtonRepresenting People, Representing Nature, Representing the World - John O′NeillUrban Policies and RegimesUrban Regime Theory in Comparative Perspective - Gerry Stoker and Karen MossbergerThe Rise of Urban Growth Coalitions, UK-Style? - Alan HardingThe Urban Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities - Christine KessidesUrban Processes in the Face of China′s Transition to a Socialist Market Economy - Fulong WuIntergovernmental Social Transfers and the Welfare State: Menace or Promise? - Douglas AshfordLocal Economic Development Policy Cities and Regions Competing in the Global Economy: Knowledge and Local Development Policies - Edward MaleckiThe Molecular Biology Revolution and the Rise of Bioscience Megacentres in North America and Europe - Philip CookeInstitutional Innovations, Asymmetric Decentralization, and Local Economic Development: A Case Study of Kunshan, in Post-Mao China - Shiuh-Shen ChienThe Restructuring of Municipal Services: A Canada - United States Comparison - Robert Hebdon and Patrice JaletteSmall Businesses Policy and Regulation The Public Choice Approach to Tax Reform - Geoffrey BrennanModelling the Impact of Taxation on the Small-Business Economy: The Natwest/MBS Tax Index for the Self-Employed, Sole-Traders, and Partnerships - P Panikkos Poutziouris, Francis Chittenden and Nicos MichaelasSME Policy Support in Britain since the 1990s: What Have We Learnt? - Robert BennettVOLUME FOUR: SOCIETY AND SPACECorporeal CartographiesPower, Space, and the Body: A Critical Assessment of Foucault′s Discipline And Punish - Felix DriverThe Body in Theory - Felicity CallardBodies and Spaces: An Exploration of Disabled People′s Experiences of Public Space - Ruth Butler and Sophia BowlbyA Corporeal Geography of Consumption - Gill Valentine Gender and PerformativityGender, Class, and Space - Gerry Pratt and Susan HansonBoys Town - Rosalyn DeutscheTaking Butler Elsewhere: Performativities, Spatialities and Subjectivities - Nicky Gregson and Gillian RoseHuman and Non-Human Landscapes(Re)Reading the Landscape - Jim Duncan and Nancy DuncanAnimals, Geography, and the City: Notes on Inclusions and Exclusions - Chris PhiloBurning Cities: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts - Adrian FranklinWhere Eagles Dare: An Ethno-Fable with Personal Landfill - Shiloh Krupar Political EconomiesPostmodernism in Economic Geography: Metaphor and the Construction of Alterity - Trevor Barnes and Michael CurryGeographies of Consumption: A Commodity-Chain Approach - Elaine HartwickTransnational Hegemony and US Labor Foreign Policy: Towards a Gramscian International Labor Geography - Jim GlassmanHawala Discourses and the War on Terrorist Finance - Marieke de Goede Geopolitics(Dis)Placing Geopolitics: Writing on the Maps of Global Politics - Gearóid Ó TuathailMapping Schengenland: Denaturalizing the Border - William WaltersFrom Arab Land to ′Israel Lands′: The Legal Dispossession of the Palestinians Displaced by Israel in the Wake of 1948 - Geremy Forman and Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar Justice and the Geographies of Moral Protest: Reflections from Mexico - Melissa WrightVOLUME FIVE: FOUNDATIONSThe CityTaking Los Angeles Apart: Some Fragments of a Critical Human Geography - Edward Soja Governing Cities: Notes on the Spatialisation of Virtue - Thomas Osborne and Nikolas RoseRetrieving the Baby from the Bathwater: Slum Upgrading in Sub-Saharan Africa - Sumila Gulyani and Ellen BassettUrban Transformation in China, 1949 - 2000: A Review and Research Agenda - Laurence MaSpace and Social TheoryTheorizing Sociospatial Relations - Bob Jessop, Neil Brenner and Martin JonesCrisis, Planning, and the Quality of Life: Managing the New Historical Relationships between Space and Society - Manuel Castells ′Deconstructing′ Architects′ Houses - Julienne Hanson Actor-Networks and the Evolution of Economic Forms: Combining Description and Explanation in Theories of Regulation, Flexible Specialization, and Networks - Jonathan MurdochThe New Mobilities Paradigm - Mimi Sheller and John UrryPlanning Theory and PracticeBetween Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of US Planning - Robert Beauregard Strategic (Spatial) Planning Reexamined - Louis Albrechts Building Institutional Capacity through Collaborative Approaches to Urban Planning - Patsy HealeyIndividual Determinants of Participation in Community Development in Indonesia - Victoria BeardModelsDesign Machines - George Stiny and Lionel MarchOn the Description of Shape and Spatial Configuration inside Buildings: Convex Partitions and their Local Properties - John Peponis et alEquilibrium Values and Dynamics of Attractiveness Terms in Production-Constrained Spatial-Interaction Models - B Harris and A G WilsonModelling the Local Impacts of National Social Policies: A Spatial Microsimulation Approach - Dimitris Ballas and Graham ClarkeNew EconomiesMoral Money? LETS and the Social Construction of Local Economic Geographies in Southeast England - Roger Lee The Internet and the Rise of the New Network Cities, 1969 - 1999 - Anthony TownsendIndustry Building as Contested Market Building: Knowledge, Politics, and the Rise of Beijing in China′s Virtual Economy - Jun ZhangUniversities, Innovation, and Territorial Development: A Review of the Evidence - Helen Lawton Smith

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