Economic Geography

John Lovering
is Professor of Urban Development and Governance at the
School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University. After graduating in
Economics, and a brief musical career he worked at the School for Advanced
Urban Studies of Bristol University, Liverpool University Geography Dept, and
Hull University School of Geography, before moving to Cardiff where he set 
up the Geography and Planning Degree. His research interests include the
philosophy of social science, globalization and defence industrial restructuring,
urban and regional development and labour market policy.
Linda McDowell 
is Professor of Human Geography at Oxford University. She
has also worked at the Open University, Cambridge, the LSE and University
College London. Her main research interest is the interconnections between
economic change, new forms of work in the labour market and in the home and
the transformation of gender relations in contemporary Britain. She has published
widely in this area including several books: Capital Culture: Gender at Work in 
the City (Blackwell, 1997), Gender, Identity and Place (Polity, 1999), Redundant
Masculinities? (Blackwell, 2003), Hard Labour (UCL Press, 2005), and numer-
ous articles. 
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Contributors

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Edward J. Malecki
is Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University. He
has been a Visiting Researcher in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development
Studies (CURDS) at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and a
Fulbright Fellow at the University of Economics and Business Administration in
Vienna, Austria. He is author of over 100 published papers, and of Technology
and Economic Development (Addison-Wesley Longman, 1997), is co-editor of
Making Connections: Technological Learning and Regional Economic Change
(Ashgate, 1999). He is Associate Editor of the journal Entrepreneurship and
Regional Development.