In the recent literature on spatial agglomeration models, substantial progress has been made in modeling urban structures in terms of number and size of cities, but the question where cities arise remains unanswered. This paper illustrates that if a spatial agglomeration model is extended with a...

In "Production, Work, Territory," Allen J. Scott and Michael Storper attempt to define the new agenda for research on the changing geography of industrial capitalism. Dissatisfied with the limited horizons of industrial geography, they gather in one volume essays by seventeen researchers who...