ABSTRACT
The literature in urban geography grew rapidly in the 1980s, with a general shift of academic interest toward cities and urbanization that was prompted by a global economy that was increasingly articulated through networks of cities, and by an awareness that the world’s population was rapidly becoming increasingly urbanized. The literature also grew more diverse as researchers took on the economic, social, cultural, and political 184changes that were occurring as a result of new spatial divisions of labor and the “new economy.” Within this expanded literature, and within the social science literature generally, the theoretical roles of space and place were strongly reasserted.
