This book explores the relationship between space, place and consumption, aiming to develop integrative approaches that articulate the processes involved in the production and consumption of space and place. The result is a varied, engaging, and innovative study of consumption and its role in...

The turn to participatory, stakeholder modes of governance has been accompanied by the legitimization of a new "particularist knowledge regime" emphasizing the knowledge claims made by private interests and local voices. It has also tended to de-legitimize the ways of knowing that had...

Geography, as the discipline responsible for describing the organization of space, has developed several ways of dealing with the phenomenon of the central city and its surrounding hinterlands. One of the most prominent of models used is von Th¸nen's Isolated State, a predictive model of how...