Thomas Sigler
Biographic Data
| ID | 82017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Sigler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sigler |
| SIGNATURE | SIGLER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7789-0916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 267 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The impact of work-from-home on population and job distribution in the United States
Four Brisbanes, three Sydneys: The spatial relatedness of “supercommunities” by country of birth in Australian cities
This study applies spatial relatedness to understand how residential overlaps between two or more groups by country of birth can advance knowledge on community formation in urban space. Based on data over three census periods, we use both pairwise and network analysis measures to identify “supercommunities” composed of multiple migrant groups for the 35 most numerically significant groups by country of birth (34 migrant groups, plus Australia), i…
Diving or thriving? How Covid-19 reshaped Australian short-term rental submarkets
Short-term rental markets are constantly evolving in response to dynamic market conditions. Leveraging the large-scale external market shocks resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper aims to better understand how short-term rental submarkets are formulated in response to changing market conditions. Using sequence analysis on monthly booking records between mid-2019 and the end of 2022 in Australia, this paper identifies six distinct short…
Are Visa-Based Dispersal Policies Effective in Attracting and Retaining Skilled Migrants in Rural Australia
Australia offers regional visa schemes for skilled migrants who reside in nonmetropolitan Australia for a minimum of 2 years to alleviate nonmetropolitan depopulation and skills shortages. To assess the efficacy of this program in attracting and retaining migrants, we apply survival analysis to administrative longitudinal microdata from the Person Level Integrated Data Asset linked to census data from 2010 to 2020. We find that this program attra…
Does a 180-day cap on short-term rentals affect housing markets? Evidence from regional New South Wales
Building to the lowest common denominator: How uncertainty of approval, cost and delays discourage housing diversity in infill development projects
Character contradiction: The exclusionary nature of preservationist planning restrictions
Preservationist planning broadly describes planning instruments that purport to preserve physical qualities of neighbourhoods by preventing demolition of historic dwellings. Here, we analyse land use conversion of almost 6000 lots in Brisbane, Australia, to understand if, and how, preservationist planning impacts the built environment. Results demonstrate that preservationist planning suppresses multi-family housing construction, even where incre…
Spatio‐Temporal Variation in the Bid–Rent Functions of Long‐Term and Short‐Term Rentals: Evidence from South‐East Queensland, Australia
Platform‐mediated short‐term rentals (STRs) are a relatively new addition to the housing landscape, providing accommodation on a temporal scale that falls between hotel stays and long‐term rentals (LTRs). Given the potential for STR hosts to charge significantly higher nightly rates for the same property than they might through an LTR lease enumerated in months or years, many have asked whether a ‘gap’ exists between the two, and how persistent t…
Reset or renaissance? An exploratory comparison of pre- and post-pandemic regional short-term rental markets in Australia
Following nearly a decade of unabated growth in the digitally disruptive short-term rental (STR) sector, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 caused a relatively abrupt two-year industry contraction characterised by substantial reductions in participating properties and booking activities. Given the sudden opportunity to rethink how STR markets fit alongside more traditional accommodation arrangements, this unanticipated Black Swan event ca…
Which 'globalisations' explain the overseas expansion of Chinese multinational enterprises through city-networks
This paper analyses the overseas expansion of Chinese multinational enterprises using city-network analysis, with the focus on identifying the 'globalisations' that influence Chinese firm expansion. Applying a stepwise regression model to explain the world city networks of Chinese multinational enterprises (CMNEs), we find that variables linked to political, infrastructural, economic and cultural attributes explain the overall network. We then an…
Urban “Blandscapes”: How the Practical Implementation of Planning Policy Reduces Land Use Diversity
Policies to increase density and diversity in Australian cities have been introduced to remedy the issues caused by the separation and homogenisation of land uses characterising urban development in the post-war period. Generally, the practical implementation of such policies is through rezoning. Here, we analyse zoning and land use data of 10,519 parcels in Brisbane to demonstrate that, despite policy aimed at land use diversification, practice …
How path dependent urban morphology restricts the effectiveness of rezoning for urban consolidation: Lessons from Brisbane, Australia
Existing urban morphology trajectories influence how planning interventions shape future development. Here, we use six purposefully selected neighborhoods, encompassing 10,519 individual properties, to analyze parcel-specific land use, zoning, and property boundary change over seven decades, to better understand the transformation of Brisbane, Australia. Our findings demonstrate the difficulty of overcoming the path dependency of urban morphology…
How Super-Gentrification Shapes “Place-Based Class Cultures”: A Review of Aspen and the American Dream
Aspen and the American Dream is an insightful social commentary on one of the world’s most expensive and prestigious ski towns whose quest for authenticity is confounded by competing social interests and the complex politics of place. Applying historiographic and ethnographic research methods, Jenny Stuber, a sociologist at the University of North Florida, recounts how Aspen’s small-town quaintness is validated by a mélange of super-rich coastal …
Beyond the resource curse: The redistributive challenge of sustainable resource-led development in Australia, Chile and Zambia
The role of visa class in the location choices of immigrants in Australia at the regional and neighbourhood scales
Australia's pro-immigration policies have played a vital role in national population growth, serving to address what would otherwise be chronic labour shortages and population ageing. While migrants to Australian have shown a clear preference for cities and tend to locate with co-ethnics, variations by visa class-employment, family reunification, and asylum-have yet to be fully explored. This paper aims to identify variations in settlement patter…
Weather to scoot? How weather shapes shared e-scooter ridership patterns
Brokerage as an urban and regional process between systems and scales
Brokerage is a process through which actors gain strategic advantage from being in-between two others. Traditionally, research has focused on people and organizations to understand how brokerage either facilitates or impedes the transmission of information or knowledge, and how this impacts both the actors and their networks. Here, we demonstrate how firms and other economic actors facilitate brokerage between cities and regions by drawing upon r…
Airbnb and micro-entrepreneurship in regional economies: Lessons from Australia
Having begun as a short-term rental platform in major cities, Airbnb has now extended to many remote and regional areas of Australia. One effect of this spread has been disruption to the conventional rental industry, which stimulates micro-entrepreneurship in local communities directly through short-term accommodation and indirectly through related industries. Given Australia's core-periphery settlement structure, resulting from the country's his…
Globalisation strategies and roles among Australian junior mining firms in Latin America
Australian junior mining firms' globalisation strategies and roles inside the sector remain understudied in economic geography. Such firms are often overshadowed by larger global mining interests, whose operations drive most foreign direct investment, capital, and operational expenditure tied to resource extraction. Unlike large multinationals and state-owned enterprises, junior firms are nimble, often untethered from path-dependent national syst…
The distribution of national urban hierarchies of connectivity within global city networks
This paper demonstrates how the national urban hierarchies can be understood through the lens of connectivity within globally scaled economic networks. We first examine the global city network structure using ak-core decomposition method. Values ofk-coreness are then used to understand the distribution of global connectivity within national urban systems. This is observed through a measure of statistical dispersion applied to a novel global datas…
Sociospatial Factors Explaining Daylight Saving Preferences in Australia
The regulation of time and time zones is a fundamentally geographical process that receives surprisingly little scholarly attention. Since the widespread adoption of internationally coordinated time during the industrial revolution, there have been only minor adjustments to the global distribution of time zones, most significantly in the implementation of daylight saving. Conceived as a way to adjust for the relatively longer length of summer day…
The socio-spatial determinants of Covid-19 diffusion: The impact of globalisation, settlement characteristics and population
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 is an emergent infectious disease that has spread geographically to become a global pandemic. While much research focuses on the epidemiological and virological aspects of COVID-19 transmission, there remains an important gap in knowledge regarding the drivers of geographical diffusion between places, in particular at the global scale. Here, we use quantile regression to model the roles of globalisation, human settlement and …
City-states in relational urbanization: The case of Luxembourg and Singapore
Post-industrial global urbanization has seen the rise of territorial economic development strategies predicated on reconfiguring the urban landscape to conform to novel forms of economic production, often under the guise of “global city” development. This paper reorients the conversation on global city development by highlighting the intermediary roles that particular cities play in brokering flows of global knowledge, goods, and capital through …
Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: Explaining regional employment divergence
This paper investigates the role of human capital in explaining divergent employment growth within advanced economies. It adds a spatial dimension to William J. Baumol’s theory of ‘unbalanced growth’ by linking it with the concept of ‘job polarization’. We develop a theory of ‘geographical unbalanced growth’ that explains divergent employment trajectories in terms of skill restructuring. The theory is operationalized via a novel shift–share exten…
The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks
City-regions are conferred economic advantage through their brokerage roles, which close structural holes between other city-regions that would otherwise not be connected within firm networks. Here, we identify city-regions whose brokerage roles are defined by their network positionality as intermediaries using flows based on ownership relations between headquarters and subsidiary locations. Applying Gould and Fernandez’s framework of five potent…
Transnational gentrification: Globalisation and neighbourhood change in Panama’s Casco Antiguo
Drawing upon the case of Panama’s Casco Antiguo, this paper establishes the theoretical concept of ‘transnational gentrification’: a process of neighbourhood change both enabled by and formative of a spatially embedded transnational ‘gentry’ whose locational mobility creates new possibilities for profitable housing reinvestment in geographically disparate markets where such possibilities would not have otherwise existed. Globalisation does not ju…
Relational Cities: Doha, Panama City, and Dubai as 21 st Century EntrepÔts
In a dynamic global economy, emergent configurations of capitalist production produce novel spatial assemblages and correspondingly unique geometries of power. The “global cities” literature frames these transformative processes in terms of hierarchical world urban systems, providing a clear theoretical path to understanding the local implications of global spatial restructuring. This article develops the concept of the “relational city” as a tra…
Strategic globalizing centers and sub-network geometries: A social network analysis of multi-scalar energy networks
New directions in transnational gentrification: Tourism-led, state-led and lifestyle-led urban transformations
Transnational gentrification is class-based neighbourhood change driven by relatively affluent international migrants. In contrast to the conventional globalisation narrative in which people are significantly more place-bound than capital flows, transnational gentrification suggests that a globally mobile capitalist class has been in large part responsible for rapid change in many urban neighbourhoods. Observations of transnational gentrification…
Extending beyond 'world cities' in World City Network (WCN) research: Urban positionality and economic linkages through the Australia-based corporate network
Defining the role of cities within economic networks has been a key theoretical challenge, particularly as nuanced understandings of positionality are increasingly championed over hierarchical notions of influence or power in the World City Network (WCN). This paper applies social network analysis (SNA) to identify the critical role that a wide range of cities plays in the Australian economic system. Drawing upon the set of Australian Securities …
The role of tax havens and offshore financial centres in shaping corporate geographies: An industry sector perspective
This paper investigates the role of tax havens and offshore financial centres (THOFC) in the global economy. Network analysis of 24 industry sectors suggests that THOFC feature prominently in knowledge-intensive activities such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and semiconductors, and are least significant in industrial activities such as automobiles and consumer durables, and place-bound activities such as real estate and retailing. Contrasting …
Exploring financial centre networks through inter-urban collaboration in high-end financial transactions in China
This study employs social network analysis to investigate financial networks in China through collaboration between advanced producer services firms in initial public offerings. The results reveal that Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai have strategically dominant network positions, and that Beijing–Shenzhen is the most influential city dyad. Cities’ positions are explained by the advantages of both spatial and institutional proximity, defined by arm…
Spatial Differentiation of Variegated Capitalisms: A Comparative Analysis of Russian and Australian Oil and Gas Corporate City Networks
The globalization of firms is shaped at multiple scales by interdependencies and connections between places. The degree to which firm strategic behavior is global depends on capitalist variegation that reflects national particularity and path dependence linked to underlying global industry restructuring. This article develops an analytical framework for studying spatial differentiation of sectoral modes of variegated capitalism by applying a worl…
After the 'World City' has Globalised: Four Agendas Towards a More Nuanced Framework for Global Urban Research
World Cities (or Global Cities) research has formed one of the most widely circulated strands of literature relating to contemporary urbanisation. It has been explored from increasingly diverse geographical perspectives and fortified by a range of theoretical and methodological positions. In the recent past, however, critical theorists have questioned the 'World City' concept's value, mustering a range of arguments pertaining to the reification o…
Global city clusters: Theorizing spatial and non-spatial proximity in inter-urban firm networks
Spatial agglomeration is well theorized within regional studies and economic geography, with firm- and industry-level advantages generally attributable to the strategic benefits derived from spatial proximity. Increasingly, alternative proximity types have been explored to explain firm relationships within and between industries. This paper applies a novel social network analysis (SNA) approach to analyze city clustering as a function of both spa…
The role of visa class in the location choices of immigrants in Australia at the regional and neighbourhood scales
Australia's pro-immigration policies have played a vital role in national population growth, serving to address what would otherwise be chronic labour shortages and population ageing. While migrants to Australian have shown a clear preference for cities and tend to locate with co-ethnics, variations by visa class-employment, family reunification, and asylum-have yet to be fully explored. This paper aims to identify variations in settlement patter…
The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks
City-regions are conferred economic advantage through their brokerage roles, which close structural holes between other city-regions that would otherwise not be connected within firm networks. Here, we identify city-regions whose brokerage roles are defined by their network positionality as intermediaries using flows based on ownership relations between headquarters and subsidiary locations. Applying Gould and Fernandez’s framework of five potent…
Targeted urban consolidation or ad hoc redevelopment? The influence of cadastral structure and change on the urban form of Brisbane, Australia
Cadastral structure exerts a significant influence on urban form. Efforts to adapt the built environment to accommodate social, environmental and economic shifts are often at odds with cadastral structure inflexibility, and urban consolidation can be particularly hampered by lot size and shapeThis research utilizes spatial analysis to examine the influence of cadastral change on infill development. Despite planning schemes encouraging urban conso…
Industrial location and global restructuring in Australian cities
Globalisation has impacted both the balance of economic power between cities as well as the distribution of economic activities within them. Studies focusing on the impacts of globalisation often investigate one or the other, but rarely tie the two together. In Australian cities, central business districts (CBDs) and inner suburbs since the 1980s have become revalorised as strategic sites for multinational firm activities, complementing an alread…
Shifting dynamics of Chinese settlement in Australia: An Urban Geographic Perspective
The so-called Asian Century has brought with it sweeping changes in the profile of migration to Australia. This paper focuses on examining post-2000 migration from Mainland China, which has rapidly ascended to now become Australia's top non-Commonwealth country of origin. Significantly, the profile of post-2000 Mainland China-born (MC-born) migrants has changed to mirror broader global shifts towards highly skilled, education-related, and investm…
Metropolitan land-use patterns by economic function: A spatial analysis of firm headquarters and branch office locations in Australian cities
This paper develops a comparative means by which to understand metropolitan spatial structure through the dynamics of economic activities. Clustering and suburbanization have been key processes within the contemporary urban landscape, but few scholarly accounts have systematically merged the two to explain the geographies of economic activity. Using firm location as a variable to discern sector- and industry-based locational requirements, we expl…
Global restructuring’ two decades on: Australia’s relational economy in the twenty-first century
The Australian economy has changed dramatically over the past quarter of a century. The combination of neoliberal reform, increasing dependence on natural resources, the rise of the services economy and the restructuring of the nation’s manufacturing sector has collectively transformed the national spatial economy. The publication of Fagan and Webber’s Global Restructuring: The Australian Experience in 1994 provided an overview of the shifting ge…
Panama's Special Economic Zones: Balancing Growth and Development
The growth of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the Global South has been widespread and well documented. This article provides a comparative analysis of two SEZs in Panama that defy conventional export-processing strategies by focussing on re-exports and regional headquartering operations, which are relatively capital-intensive rather than labour-intensive. I argue that while this may be a sound economic growth strategy at the national scale, it …
Panama as Palimpsest: The Reformulation of the 'Transit Corridor' in a Global Economy
The interface between economic globalization and territorial formation has been a fundamental concern to scholars from a wide range of disciplines as both supra- and subnational configurations increasingly supplant the role of the nation-state so as to achieve purported political or economic objectives. Though extensive literatures document this process, considerable lacunae exist with regard to the understanding thereof within a socio-historical…
Beyond the resource curse: The redistributive challenge of sustainable resource-led development in Australia, Chile and Zambia
Networked coalitions” as metropolitan governance: Lessons from the emergence of Australia’s Committees for Cities and Regions
The continuous rescaling of metropolitan governance has been a prominent feature of the neoliberal state. Metropolitan coalitions are one variant of governance in which disparate actors are brought together around a common agenda or platform. Drawing upon the example of Australia’s Committees for Cities and Regions (CCRs), this article applies urban governance theory to better understand the effectiveness of networked metropolitan governance coal…
Parcel amalgamation as a mechanism for achieving urban consolidation through densification: The fixity of property boundaries over time
Spatio‐Temporal Variation in the Bid–Rent Functions of Long‐Term and Short‐Term Rentals: Evidence from South‐East Queensland, Australia
Platform‐mediated short‐term rentals (STRs) are a relatively new addition to the housing landscape, providing accommodation on a temporal scale that falls between hotel stays and long‐term rentals (LTRs). Given the potential for STR hosts to charge significantly higher nightly rates for the same property than they might through an LTR lease enumerated in months or years, many have asked whether a ‘gap’ exists between the two, and how persistent t…
Brokerage as an urban and regional process between systems and scales
Brokerage is a process through which actors gain strategic advantage from being in-between two others. Traditionally, research has focused on people and organizations to understand how brokerage either facilitates or impedes the transmission of information or knowledge, and how this impacts both the actors and their networks. Here, we demonstrate how firms and other economic actors facilitate brokerage between cities and regions by drawing upon r…
City-states in relational urbanization: The case of Luxembourg and Singapore
Post-industrial global urbanization has seen the rise of territorial economic development strategies predicated on reconfiguring the urban landscape to conform to novel forms of economic production, often under the guise of “global city” development. This paper reorients the conversation on global city development by highlighting the intermediary roles that particular cities play in brokering flows of global knowledge, goods, and capital through …
Relational Cities: Doha, Panama City, and Dubai as 21 st Century EntrepÔts
In a dynamic global economy, emergent configurations of capitalist production produce novel spatial assemblages and correspondingly unique geometries of power. The “global cities” literature frames these transformative processes in terms of hierarchical world urban systems, providing a clear theoretical path to understanding the local implications of global spatial restructuring. This article develops the concept of the “relational city” as a tra…
Monaco with bananas, a tropical Manhattan, or a Singapore for Central America? Explaining rapid urban growth in Panama City, Panama
The built environment of P anama C ity, P anama, has undergone a transformative change over the past decade. Hundreds of high‐rise residential towers have sprung up in and around its central business district, eliciting comparisons with Singapore, N ew Y ork and D ubai insofar as journalists, real estate boosters and politicians have associated the increase in tall buildings with a commensurate increase in global status. Concurrently, on the urba…
Panama's Special Economic Zones: Balancing Growth and Development
The growth of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the Global South has been widespread and well documented. This article provides a comparative analysis of two SEZs in Panama that defy conventional export-processing strategies by focussing on re-exports and regional headquartering operations, which are relatively capital-intensive rather than labour-intensive. I argue that while this may be a sound economic growth strategy at the national scale, it …
Panama as Palimpsest: The Reformulation of the 'Transit Corridor' in a Global Economy
The interface between economic globalization and territorial formation has been a fundamental concern to scholars from a wide range of disciplines as both supra- and subnational configurations increasingly supplant the role of the nation-state so as to achieve purported political or economic objectives. Though extensive literatures document this process, considerable lacunae exist with regard to the understanding thereof within a socio-historical…
Metropolitan land-use patterns by economic function: A spatial analysis of firm headquarters and branch office locations in Australian cities
This paper develops a comparative means by which to understand metropolitan spatial structure through the dynamics of economic activities. Clustering and suburbanization have been key processes within the contemporary urban landscape, but few scholarly accounts have systematically merged the two to explain the geographies of economic activity. Using firm location as a variable to discern sector- and industry-based locational requirements, we expl…
Strategic globalizing centers and sub-network geometries: A social network analysis of multi-scalar energy networks
The Heterogeneous Isthmus: Transnationalism and Cultural Differentiation in Panama
This article addresses understandings of race and ethnicity withinLatinAmerican research by examining and arguing for an increasingly transnational interpretation of identity through an analytical engagement with the changing politics of difference inPanama. Applying historiographical and ethnographic approaches, we interrogate ethno-racial differentiation from a transnational perspective, concluding that dominant national discourses on identity …
Sustainability from a Chinese cultural perspective: The implications of harmonious development in environmental management
Transnational gentrification: Globalisation and neighbourhood change in Panama’s Casco Antiguo
Drawing upon the case of Panama’s Casco Antiguo, this paper establishes the theoretical concept of ‘transnational gentrification’: a process of neighbourhood change both enabled by and formative of a spatially embedded transnational ‘gentry’ whose locational mobility creates new possibilities for profitable housing reinvestment in geographically disparate markets where such possibilities would not have otherwise existed. Globalisation does not ju…
After the 'World City' has Globalised: Four Agendas Towards a More Nuanced Framework for Global Urban Research
World Cities (or Global Cities) research has formed one of the most widely circulated strands of literature relating to contemporary urbanisation. It has been explored from increasingly diverse geographical perspectives and fortified by a range of theoretical and methodological positions. In the recent past, however, critical theorists have questioned the 'World City' concept's value, mustering a range of arguments pertaining to the reification o…
The Panama Canal Zone: A Historical Revisionist's Perspective
In the history of US imperialism, few territories have embodied the dominion of Uncle Sam overseas like the Panama Canal Zone. Established in 1903 under the provisions of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Trea
Glocal riddim: Cultural production and territorial identity in Caribbean music videos
Over the past two decades, several musical genres have transcended their Caribbean origins to achieve global recognition and success. Among these are soca, dancehall and reggaeton, all forms that had been inextricably tied to native cultural expressions, but have become increasingly popular as global commodities, particularly as web-based streaming platforms (e.g. YouTube) enhance their global audiovisual mobility. Numerous artists within these g…
Global city clusters: Theorizing spatial and non-spatial proximity in inter-urban firm networks
Spatial agglomeration is well theorized within regional studies and economic geography, with firm- and industry-level advantages generally attributable to the strategic benefits derived from spatial proximity. Increasingly, alternative proximity types have been explored to explain firm relationships within and between industries. This paper applies a novel social network analysis (SNA) approach to analyze city clustering as a function of both spa…
Extending beyond 'world cities' in World City Network (WCN) research: Urban positionality and economic linkages through the Australia-based corporate network
Defining the role of cities within economic networks has been a key theoretical challenge, particularly as nuanced understandings of positionality are increasingly championed over hierarchical notions of influence or power in the World City Network (WCN). This paper applies social network analysis (SNA) to identify the critical role that a wide range of cities plays in the Australian economic system. Drawing upon the set of Australian Securities …
The shifting spaces of creativity in Hong Kong
Exploring financial centre networks through inter-urban collaboration in high-end financial transactions in China
This study employs social network analysis to investigate financial networks in China through collaboration between advanced producer services firms in initial public offerings. The results reveal that Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai have strategically dominant network positions, and that Beijing–Shenzhen is the most influential city dyad. Cities’ positions are explained by the advantages of both spatial and institutional proximity, defined by arm…
Industrial location and global restructuring in Australian cities
Globalisation has impacted both the balance of economic power between cities as well as the distribution of economic activities within them. Studies focusing on the impacts of globalisation often investigate one or the other, but rarely tie the two together. In Australian cities, central business districts (CBDs) and inner suburbs since the 1980s have become revalorised as strategic sites for multinational firm activities, complementing an alread…
Global restructuring’ two decades on: Australia’s relational economy in the twenty-first century
The Australian economy has changed dramatically over the past quarter of a century. The combination of neoliberal reform, increasing dependence on natural resources, the rise of the services economy and the restructuring of the nation’s manufacturing sector has collectively transformed the national spatial economy. The publication of Fagan and Webber’s Global Restructuring: The Australian Experience in 1994 provided an overview of the shifting ge…
Why do a PhD in geography? A sympathetic response to ‘the career aspirations and expectations of geography students
This article provides commentary on the changing nature of the geography PhD. Taking as a point of departure Rae Dufty‐Jones's article on the career aspirations and expectations of geography doctoral students published in this journal earlier this year, we frame the paper around a series of propositions that prospective higher degree candidates may find useful. We buttress Dufty‐Jones's argument with numerical evidence that the “supply” of Austra…
Firm evolution and cluster specialization: A social network analysis of resource industry change in two Australian cities
Evolutionary perspectives have been increasingly applied to understanding industry agglomeration. By tracking change over time, evolutionary perspectives shed a light on firm-level and sectoral changes that are contextualized within global industrial shifts. This paper addresses a research gap in evolutionary economic geography and regional science by applying network dynamics of industrial agglomeration though industry- rather than firm-level re…
Shifting dynamics of Chinese settlement in Australia: An Urban Geographic Perspective
The so-called Asian Century has brought with it sweeping changes in the profile of migration to Australia. This paper focuses on examining post-2000 migration from Mainland China, which has rapidly ascended to now become Australia's top non-Commonwealth country of origin. Significantly, the profile of post-2000 Mainland China-born (MC-born) migrants has changed to mirror broader global shifts towards highly skilled, education-related, and investm…
Networked coalitions” as metropolitan governance: Lessons from the emergence of Australia’s Committees for Cities and Regions
The continuous rescaling of metropolitan governance has been a prominent feature of the neoliberal state. Metropolitan coalitions are one variant of governance in which disparate actors are brought together around a common agenda or platform. Drawing upon the example of Australia’s Committees for Cities and Regions (CCRs), this article applies urban governance theory to better understand the effectiveness of networked metropolitan governance coal…
Targeted urban consolidation or ad hoc redevelopment? The influence of cadastral structure and change on the urban form of Brisbane, Australia
Cadastral structure exerts a significant influence on urban form. Efforts to adapt the built environment to accommodate social, environmental and economic shifts are often at odds with cadastral structure inflexibility, and urban consolidation can be particularly hampered by lot size and shapeThis research utilizes spatial analysis to examine the influence of cadastral change on infill development. Despite planning schemes encouraging urban conso…
Parcel amalgamation as a mechanism for achieving urban consolidation through densification: The fixity of property boundaries over time
The role of tax havens and offshore financial centres in shaping corporate geographies: An industry sector perspective
This paper investigates the role of tax havens and offshore financial centres (THOFC) in the global economy. Network analysis of 24 industry sectors suggests that THOFC feature prominently in knowledge-intensive activities such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and semiconductors, and are least significant in industrial activities such as automobiles and consumer durables, and place-bound activities such as real estate and retailing. Contrasting …
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