Writing Worlds explores the issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors organize their discussion of geographical writings around the three themes of discourse, text and metaphor. Each theme is used as a potential entry point into understanding the shape and substance of particular kinds of geographical writings: the discourses of economics, geopolitics and urban planning, travellers' descriptions, propaganda maps, cartography and geometry, poetry and painting. Representation of the landscape - city, countryside or...

Since the end of the 1970s, the economies of North America and Western Europe have undergone massive industrial-geographical transformations. This book focuses on three of the most important: on the heightened importance of the region as a generator of both technological innovation and economic wealth; on the contingent effects of new local, national and international forms of regulation; and on the emergence of new institutions, and the reworking of old ones.

This reader introduces students to examples of the most important research in the field of economic geography.

• Brings together the most important research contributions to economic geography.
  
• Editorial commentary makes the material accessible for students.
  
• The editors are highly respected in their field.

A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field.

• Places economic geography in the wider context of geography.
  
• Contributions from leading international scholars in the field.
  
• Presents a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible overview of all the major themes in the field.
  
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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.

• Offers a fully revised, expanded, and up-to-date overview, following the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic Geography published by Blackwell a decade earlier, providing a comprehensive assessment of the field
• Takes a prospective as well as retrospective look at the field, reviewing recent...

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.

• Offers a fully revised, expanded, and up-to-date overview, following the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic Geography published by Blackwell a decade earlier, providing a comprehensive assessment of the field
• Takes a prospective as well as retrospective look at the field, reviewing recent...

This volume in the celebrated Critical Introductions to Geography series introduces readers to the vibrant discipline of economic geography.