(Fellows Address April, 1995) It is now more than forty years since Walter Isard sought to create a new discipline, Regional Science. What concerned him was the Anglo-Saxon bias in economics: that economic systems could be analyzed in a spaceless world, literally on the head of a pin. The...

Although the pattern of polarization reversal reported by Vining and Pallone in the 1970s and the re-emergence of core-ward net migration that they now report for the 1980s are problematic if viewed from the perspective of a short-term time horizon, they are easily understandable in a long-wave...