You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the moment it stands for a c….

For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places….

Incidentally, I don't think there is a non-adjectival 'globalisation'. What we have now is a particular form: dominated by finance and multinational ….

Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious..

The problem with the finance sector is not that it has crashed (though that has done enormous damage around the world) but the damage that it did eve….

If time is the dimension of change, then space is the dimension of coexisting difference. And that is both a source of nourishment (something that th….

Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that neve….