This resurgence and the new regionalism that accompanies it will almost certainly come to be one of the defining features of the geography of the 21 st century. The chief focus of the book is on the enormous resurgence of cities all over the globe in the last few decades, in significant degree as a function of the recent worldwide intensification and spread of revivified forms of capitalism. In my new book, A World in Emergence, my goal is to work out how these different elements are constituted and how they shape the formation of the contemporary geographic landscape. Distinguished Professor Emeritus Allen J Scott examines how the emerging cultural–cognitive economy of the 21st century is producing urban landscapes. Cities and their surrounding regions, contrary to many earlier predictions, continue to grow and spread. Economic relations of production and consumption are being revolutionized by new digital technologies. New kinds of interpenetrating political institutions are multiplying at many different scales. The First, Second, and Third Worlds have gone. Globalization is bringing many different and far-flung areas into greatly intensified relations of competition and cooperation with one another. The world of the early 21st century already looks dramatically different from the world of the late 20th century.
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