Location analytics have been a mainstay in regional science since its inception. Why? Perhaps the biggest reason is the ability to tease out important spatial heterogeneity nuances, but also to communicate geographically oriented analysis, planning, management and policy issues in rigorous ways,...

It has been argued that internal and external contextualizations are important aspects of research intended to be relevant, valuable, and engaged in societal progress. In this article, we advocate for scholarship focus on the city and the region as a means to achieve this goal. The notion of...