 Geography and uneven developmentMichael Dunford Chapter 5 in Rethinking Uneven Development, 2026, pp 116-142 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This chapter examines the contributions of academic geography and urban and regional studies and also of other disciplines and interdisciplinary research to the study of the structure and dynamics of economic landscapes. The starting point is an account of theories of location and the new economic geography of Paul Krugman and others. Attention is then paid successively to institutional and evolutionary theories; studies of spatial and international divisions of labour; external economies and the development of clusters and industrial districts; global commodity chains, global value chains and global production networks; and the drivers of agglomeration, urbanisation and urban–rural relations. As a whole this literature offers important insights into the dialectical relationships between social structures (the dynamics of industrial, commercial, financial and property capital, politics and social class), spatial organisation (geographical landscapes and the structure and organisation of cities and regions) and inequalities in income, wealth and conditions and ways of work and life. Keywords: Location Theory; New Economic Geography; Spatial Division of Labour; Institutional Economics and Geography; Evolutionary Economic Geography; Global Value Chains; Global Production Networks; Urbanisation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:24148_6 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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