ABSTRACT
We can make a distinction between location and site. Location refers to relative space, the space of connections and the space of urban hierarchies, economic transactions and social relations. It is a space abstracted from territory. Site, in contrast, refers to the absolute space that a city occupies. In much of recent urban geography and indeed of urban studies in general, the abstract space of location is a more dominant theme, an intellectual trajectory that tends to ignore, marginalize or simply forget the importance of absolute space to understanding cities.
