J<sc>ones</sc> M. and W<sc>oods</sc> M. New localities, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. During the mid-to-late 1980s, 'locality' was <italic>the</italic> spatial metaphor to describe and explain the shifting world of regional studies. The paper argues that the resulting 'localities debate' threw this baby out with the bathwater and rather than...

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