ABSTRACT
Contrary to the claims of some analysts about how the logic and dynamics of territorial development are increasingly placeless’ (Castells and Henderson 1987, p. 7), or those who predict either the end of geography (O’Brien 1992) or of the nation state (Ohmae 1995), we tend to agree with Allen Scott (1986) when he suggests that the global economy is entering a phase of capitalist development in which the local or subnational concentration of production is becoming more rather than less pronounced as a mode of spatial economic organisation.
