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…

- Doreen Massey

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

- Doreen Massey

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…

- Doreen Massey

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

- Doreen Massey

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

- Doreen Massey

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…

- Doreen Massey

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…

- Doreen Massey