The sociologist Saskia Sassen theorizes that globalization operates according to geographies of dispersal and concentration. The geography of dispersal is akin to what Thomas Friedman calls the “flat” ...

The identification of, and advocacy for bridging, a divide between economic and development geography has been a focus of considerable recent attention. Yet the practical challenges and opportunities ...

One of the key processes in the development of the world economy on the verge of the 20th – 21st centuries is progressive globalization, i.e. a qualitatively new stage in the development of the ...

Versions of this newsletter were initially published earlier this year by Governing Magazine and Context Magazine For 25 years, the rebound of central business districts has been a driving force in ...

Globalization’s rich history began long before giant conglomerates such as Amazon and Google existed. There is a timeline of discovery, protectionism, liberalization, financial crisis, and economic ...

On December 18, exactly 47 years after the landmark plenum that launched China’s reform era, Beijing drew a definitive line ...