Open AccessFrom megalopolis to global city-region? The political-geographical context of urban development
Author(s) -
John Agnew
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
ekistics and the new habitat
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2653-1313
DOI - 10.53910/26531313-e200370418/419306
Subject(s) - geopolitics , megalopolis , political geography , politics , human geography , context (archaeology) , urban geography , historical geography , geography , space (punctuation) , economic geography , regional science , sociology , political science , urban planning , archaeology , law , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , biology
The author is Professor of Geography at the University of California at Los Angeles. His main research and teaching interests are political geography and the urban geography of Europe. His recent books include: Rome (Wiley, 1995); Mastering Space (Routledge, 1995); Geopolitics (Routledge, 1998); Place and Politics in Modern Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2002); and Making Political Geography (OxfordUniversity Press, 2002). In 2000 he gave the Hettner Lectures at the University of Heidelberg on Reinventing Geopolitics: Geographies of Modern Statehood (Institute of geography, University of Heidelberg, 2001).