Urban Geography

Restructuring Cities and Regions

“…Papers on urban and regional themes from the journal's first 10 years or so were mostly characterised by what an earlier review (Forster, ) termed ebullient empiricism , shaped by the quantitative methods and neoclassical economic theories of the time. In the following 40 years, our pages have reflected the economic restructuring, demographic change, technological development, cultural shifts, and swings in political philosophy that continue to reshape the geography of Australia's cities and regions – together with the accompanying debates about theory.…”