Space: The Final Frontier
回顾了空间经济学从被忽视到近年兴起的原因，总结了新经济地理学的核心要素、研究现状及未来挑战，适合对经济地理和区域发展感兴趣的读者。
Traditionally, until the early 1990s, spatial economics -- the study of where economic activity takes place and why -- was pretty much neglected. Even now not one of the best-selling introductory textbooks in economics contains a single index entry for "location," "space," or "regions." In the last six or seven years, however, interest in spatial economics has surged. In this article I will try to summarize briefly the reasons for that surge; the key elements of the so-called "new economic geography;" the current state of research; and the prospects and difficulties facing this subfield of economics.