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Working Papers

2013

1. Suburbanization in Greece: The informal transformation of Maroussi into the economic hub of Athens
   ERSA conference papers, European Regional Science Association

Journal Articles

2024

1. Competition and coordination in state intrapreneurialism: The case of South Korea's export of urban expertise
   Environment and Planning A, 2024, 56, (1), 23-41

2023

2. Centring the periphery in urban studies: Notes towards a research agenda on peripheral centralities
   Urban Studies, 2023, 60, (6), 1158-1176 View citations (3)
3. Market maker? The Fantus Company and the making of a market for location in the United States
   Business History, 2023, 65, (6), 1029-1047
4. The Business Climate and the Commodification of Place: The Making of a Market for Location
   Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2023, 113, (1), 225-239 View citations (1)
5. ‘It’s the hope I can’t stand’: planning, valuation and new community building
   Journal of Property Research, 2023, 40, (3), 252-273

2022

6. From Edge City to City?
   Journal of the American Planning Association, 2022, 88, (4), 565-577
7. Urban Sprawl as Policy Sprawl: Distinguishing Chinese Capitalism’s Suburban Spatial Fix
   Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2022, 112, (4), 1179-1194 View citations (2)

2021

8. City systems research: from morphology to relationality and positionality
   International Journal of Urban Sciences, 2021, 25, (4), 480-500
9. From Socialist Subject to Capitalist Object: Industry Enclave Life Past and Present in Wuhan
   International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2021, 45, (1), 99-115 View citations (1)
10. Gateways or backdoors to development? Filtering mechanisms and territorial embeddedness in the Chilean copper GPN’s urban system
    Growth and Change, 2021, 52, (1), 88-110 View citations (6)
11. Suburban (mis)fortunes: Outer suburban shrinkage in Tokyo Metropolis
    Urban Studies, 2021, 58, (14), 3029-3049 View citations (2)

2020

12. Mediating Local Economic Development: The Place of Site Selection Consultants in Industrial Recruitment
    Economic Development Quarterly, 2020, 34, (1), 78-84

2019

13. Book review: Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest
    Urban Studies, 2019, 56, (8), 1703-1704
14. Bridges over troubled water? Journals, geographers and economists in the field of economy and space 1980–2017
    Environment and Planning A, 2019, 51, (8), 1800-1823
15. The landscape of Chinese invention patents: Quantity, density, and intensity
    Environment and Planning A, 2019, 51, (4), 823-826 View citations (1)

2018

16. An invitation to the dark side of economic geography
    Environment and Planning A, 2018, 50, (1), 236-244 View citations (17)
17. Consumer preferences for aquaponic produce: Implications from an experimental auction
    Agribusiness, 2018, 34, (4), 742-755 View citations (1)
18. Framing the Future: On Local Planning Cultures and Legacies
    Planning Theory & Practice, 2018, 19, (5), 698-716 View citations (1)
19. Megalopolis unbound: Knowledge collaboration and functional polycentricity within and beyond the Yangtze River Delta Region in China, 2014
    Urban Studies, 2018, 55, (2), 443-460 View citations (13)
20. Mind the gaps! A research agenda for urban interstices
    Urban Studies, 2018, 55, (6), 1203-1222 View citations (5)
21. Promoting the global economy: The uneven development of the location consulting industry
    Environment and Planning A, 2018, 50, (6), 1336-1354 View citations (1)
22. Revisiting the multinational enterprise in global production networks
    Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18, (1), 139-161 View citations (14)
23. The business of location: site selection consultants and the mobilisation of knowledge in the location decision
    Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18, (5), 1023-1044 View citations (9)
24. Towards a geography of intermediaries
    Environment and Planning A, 2018, 50, (6), 1290-1294

2017

25. Knowledge polycentricity and the evolving Yangtze River Delta megalopolis
    Regional Studies, 2017, 51, (7), 1035-1047 View citations (15)

2016

26. Book review: Retrofitting Sprawl: Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form
    Urban Studies, 2016, 53, (9), 1982-1983
27. Inertia and change in multinational enterprise subsidiary capabilities: an evolutionary economic geography framework
    Journal of Economic Geography, 2016, 16, (1), 109-130 View citations (12)

2015

28. Encore for the Enclave: The Changing Nature of the Industry Enclave with Illustrations from the Mining Industry in Chile
    Economic Geography, 2015, 91, (2), 119-146 View citations (34)
    Also in Economic Geography, 2015, 91, (2), 119-146 (2015) View citations (35)
29. Mario Reimer, Panagiotis Getimis and Hans Blotevogel (eds.) 2013: Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Changes. London: Routledge
    International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015, 39, (4), 852-853
30. The suburban question: grassroots politics and place making in Spanish suburbs
    Environment and Planning C, 2015, 33, (3), 512-532 View citations (4)

2014

31. A Man for All Regions: Peter Hall and Regional Studies
    Regional Studies, 2014, 48, (10), 1579-1586
32. Guest Editorial
    Environment and Planning C, 2014, 32, (5), 777-783
33. Multinationals and Economic Geography: Location, Technology and Innovation, by Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann. 2013. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. 479 + v. ISBN 978-1-78195-487-4, $48 (paper); ISBN 978-1-78195-478-2, $171 (cloth)
    Journal of Regional Science, 2014, 54, (4), 716-717
34. Review: Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations, International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World?, Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes, Investigating Quality of Urban Life: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Research
    Environment and Planning B, 2014, 41, (2), 375-380
35. Soft Space, Hard Bargaining: Planning for High-Tech Growth in ‘Science Vale UK’
    Environment and Planning C, 2014, 32, (5), 824-842 View citations (1)
36. Untangling the Spaces of High Technology in Malaysia
    Environment and Planning C, 2014, 32, (5), 896-915 View citations (6)

2013

37. Review: Creating Smarter Cities, Building the New Urbanism: Places, Professions, and Profits in the American Metropolitan Landscape, Minority Internal Migration in Europe, Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems, Capital Spaces: The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City, the Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory, the SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies
    Environment and Planning B, 2013, 40, (5), 942-950

2011

38. (Post)Suburban Development and State Entrepreneurialism in Beijing's Outer Suburbs
    Environment and Planning A, 2011, 43, (2), 410-430 View citations (22)
39. Do Gates Negate the City? Gated Communities’ Contribution to the Urbanisation of Suburbia in Pilar, Argentina
    Urban Studies, 2011, 48, (16), 3487-3509 View citations (7)
40. Review: Medical Geography, Miami: Mistress of the Americas
    Environment and Planning B, 2011, 38, (6), 1122-1124
41. Reviews: Building for a Changing Climate: The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy, Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis, Handbook of Spatial Statistics, Spacematrix: Space, Density and Urban Form, Planning with Complexity: An Introduction for Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy, LA under the Influence: The Hidden Logic of Urban Property, Handbook of Research on Cluster Theory, OpenStreetMap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World
    Environment and Planning B, 2011, 38, (3), 564-574
42. The New Post-suburban Politics?
    Urban Studies, 2011, 48, (12), 2591-2610 View citations (54)

2010

43. A Postsuburban World? An Outline of a Research Agenda
    Environment and Planning A, 2010, 42, (2), 366-383 View citations (14)

2009

44. Broken Chain? AGOA and Foreign Direct Investment in the Kenyan Clothing Industry
    World Development, 2009, 37, (2), 314-325 View citations (27)
45. From Branch Plant Economies to Knowledge Economies? Manufacturing Industry, Government Policy, and Economic Development in Britain's Old Industrial Regions
    Environment and Planning C, 2009, 27, (4), 574-592 View citations (6)
46. Review: Urban Green Belts in the Twenty-First Century, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, Crime Mapping Case Studies: Practice and Research, Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories, Modelling Urban Development with Geographical Information Systems and Cellular Automata, a City of One's Own: Blurring the Boundaries between Private and Public, Social Capital and Urban Networks of Trust
    Environment and Planning B, 2009, 36, (6), 1124-1132

2008

47. . Edited by Pontus Braunerhjelm and Maryann Feldman
    Economic Geography, 2008, 84, (2), 245-246
48. Book Review
    European Planning Studies, 2008, 16, (10), 1473-1474
49. Cluster or Capture? Manufacturing Foreign Direct Investment, External Economies and Agglomeration
    Regional Studies, 2008, 42, (4), 457-473 View citations (27)
50. Reviews: Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities, Noise Orders: Jazz, Improvisation, and Architecture, Spatial Planning Systems in Western Europe: An Overview
    Environment and Planning B, 2008, 35, (1), 187-190

2007

51. Foreign Direct Investment and the Regional Economy – By Jonathan Jones and Colin Wren
    Growth and Change, 2007, 38, (4), 738-739
52. Gaining from Globalization? State Extraterritoriality and Domestic Economic Impacts—The Case of Singapore
    Economic Geography, 2007, 83, (4), 371-393 View citations (5)
53. Reviews: The High Cost of Free Parking, Regional Development and Spatial Planning in an Enlarged European Union, Environmental Valuation: Interregional and Intraregional Perspectives, Fuzzy Planning: The Role of Actors in a Fuzzy Governance Environment
    Environment and Planning B, 2007, 34, (4), 755-760

2006

54. Business at the margins? Business interests in edge urban politics
    International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2006, 30, (2), 362-383 View citations (5)
55. Lost in translation? Local interests, global actors and inward investment regimes
    Journal of Economic Geography, 2006, 6, (4), 493-515 View citations (11)
56. Review: GIS in Land and Property Management, Planning in Britain: Understanding and Evaluating the Post-War System, a Field Guide to Sprawl, the Green City: Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs, Measuring Health Equity in Small Areas: Findings from Demographic Surveillance Systems, Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing and Environmental Knowing, Geo-Information for Disaster Management, Urban Ethic: Design in the Contemporary City
    Environment and Planning B, 2006, 33, (5), 789-798
57. Reviews: Sprawl: A Compact History, Visualization in Landscape and Environmental Planning: Technology and Applications, Immigrants and the American Dream: Remaking the Middle Class, GIS for Sustainable Development
    Environment and Planning B, 2006, 33, (6), 943-948

2004

58. Archetype for an archipelago? Batam as anti-model and model of industrialization in reformasi Indonesia
    Progress in Development Studies, 2004, 4, (3), 206-229
59. Capital Versus the Districts: A Tale of One Multinational Company’s Attempt to Disembed Itself
    Economic Geography, 2004, 80, (2), 191-215 View citations (5)
60. Clusters, Dispersion and the Spaces in Between: For an Economic Geography of the Banal
    Urban Studies, 2004, 41, (5-6), 971-989 View citations (41)
61. Multinational Enterprises, Repeat Investment and the Role of Aftercare Services in Wales and Ireland
    Regional Studies, 2004, 38, (7), 783-801 View citations (7)

2003

62. Edge Urban Geographies: Notes from the Margins of Europe's Capital Cities
    Urban Studies, 2003, 40, (9), 1725-1749 View citations (14)
63. Embedding the Multinationals? Institutions and the Development of Overseas Manufacturing Affiliates in Wales and North East England
    Regional Studies, 2003, 37, (1), 27-40 View citations (44)

2002

64. A Crisis in Economic Geography? On Performing the Diverse Subdiscipline
    Environment and Planning A, 2002, 34, (2), 189-190
65. Devolution, Regionalism and Local Economic Development
    Local Economy, 2002, 17, (3), 186-190 View citations (2)
66. Technology Spillovers between EU MNCs and Mexico: Steps Towards Local Sustainable Development?
    Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business, 2002, 5, (Special Conference Issue), 123-138

2001

67. Globalisation, Regions and the State: Exploring the Limitations of Economic Modernisation through Inward Investment
    Urban Studies, 2001, 38, (8), 1253-1272 View citations (6)
68. Reviews
    Local Economy, 2001, 16, (2), 173-176
69. Small Firms, Borrowed Size and the Urban-Rural Shift
    Regional Studies, 2001, 35, (7), 613-624 View citations (40)
70. Taking Care of Business: Aftercare and the State — Multinational Enterprise Nexus in Wales
    Environment and Planning C, 2001, 19, (6), 817-832 View citations (3)

2000

71. Levelling the Uneven Playing Field: Inward Investment, Interregional Rivalry and the Planning System
    Regional Studies, 2000, 34, (5), 429-440 View citations (13)
72. Multinationals, Intracorporate Competition, and Regional Development
    Economic Geography, 2000, 76, (3), 224-243 View citations (24)
73. Scratching the Surface of Collaborative and Associative Governance: Identifying the Diversity of Social Action in Institutional Capacity Building
    Environment and Planning A, 2000, 32, (1), 111-130 View citations (6)

1999

74. Competing through Planning
    Environment and Planning B, 1999, 26, (2), 159-162

1998

75. Institutional Capacity Building in a Strategic Policy Vacuum: The Case of the Korean Company LG in South Wales
    Environment and Planning C, 1998, 16, (6), 735-755 View citations (11)

1997

76. A Hazard of New Fortunes: The Built Environment and Economic Development in Croydon
    Environment and Planning B, 1997, 24, (5), 643-645
77. Multinationals and European Integration: The Prospects for Welsh Manufacturing Industry
    Environment and Planning A, 1997, 29, (9), 1525-1541
78. Review: International Perspectives in Urban Studies 3, Theories of Urban Politics, Small Firms and Local Economic Networks: The Death of the Local Economy?, Property Development, Planning London, Housing and Family Wealth: Comparative International Perspectives, the Rise of the Rustbelt, Trees in the Urban Landscape: Principles and Practice
    Environment and Planning B, 1997, 24, (2), 307-316
79. Reviews
    Local Economy, 1997, 12, (2), 179-189

1996

80. Book Reviews
    Regional Studies, 1996, 30, (3), 311-316 View citations (2)
81. Review: Environmental Modeling with GIS, Fractal Cities, Modern Cartography Volume 2: Visualization in Modern Cartography, Land for Industrial Development, Restructuring Rural Areas 2. Reconstituting Rurality: Class, Community and Power in the Development Process, Space, Place and Gender, the City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments, Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment
    Environment and Planning B, 1996, 23, (4), 501-512
82. Review: Passenger Transport after 2000 AD, Continental Trading Blocs: The Growth of Regionalism in the World Economy, Public Services and Market Mechanisms: Competition, Contracting, and the New Public Management, Urban Tourism: Attracting Visitors to Large Cities, Interactive Spatial Data Analysis, Census Users' Handbook, Negotiating Development: Rationales and Practices for Development Obligations and Planning Gain, Social Theory and the Global Environment, Selling Cities: Attracting Homebuyers through Schools and Housing Programs
    Environment and Planning B, 1996, 23, (5), 625-638
83. Small Firms and Local Economic Development in South London
    Local Economy, 1996, 11, (3), 202-220

1995

84. Review: Innovative Approaches to Urban Management: The Integrated Urban Infrastructure Programme in Indonesia, Direct Investment and European Integration: Competition among Firms and Governments, Planning at the Crossroads, Facadism, the Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning, Applications of Fractals and Chaos: The Shape of Things, Reactive Data Structures for Geographic Information Systems, the Politics of Local Economic Policy: The Problems and Possibilities of Local Initiative, Divided Cities: New York and London in the Contemporary World, the Eclipse of Council Housing
    Environment and Planning B, 1995, 22, (2), 237-252

1993

85. Contemporary Industrial Restructuring and Linkage Change in an Older Industrial Region: Examples from the Northeast of England
    Environment and Planning A, 1993, 25, (6), 863-882 View citations (6)

1992

86. Reviews: Regional Policy and Development Series 1. Retreat from the Regions: Corporate Change and the Closure of Factories, Review of Geographic Information 1991, Rates of Urbanization in England 1981–2001, Regions Reconsidered: Economic Networks, Innovation, and Local Development in Industrialised Countries, Justice outside the City: Access to Legal Services in Rural Areas, Migration Models: Macro and Micro Approaches, Housing Management: A Guide to Quality and Creativity
    Environment and Planning B, 1992, 19, (4), 479-488
87. Reviews: World Nuclear Power, Radioactive Waste: Politics and Technology, Map Generalization: Making Rules for Knowledge Representation, Industrial Change and Regional Development: The Transformation of New Industrial Spaces, Understanding Information: Business, Technology and Geography
    Environment and Planning B, 1992, 19, (5), 605-610

Books

2017

1. Interplaces: An Economic Geography of the Inter-urban and International Economies
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (10)

Edited books

2003

1. The New Competition for Inward Investment
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (42)

Chapters

2006

1. Capital’s Search for Order: Foreign Direct Investment, Models and Hybrid Models of Social Order in Southeast Asia
   Chapter 13 in Handbook of Research on Asian Business, 2006

2000

2. Regions, Governance and FDI: The Case of Wales
   Palgrave Macmillan