| Sumario: | Part of a special section on the theorization of time and space. The writers examine the work of Canadian economic historian, Harold Innis, to reflect on the character of resource economies and the single-industry towns that make up their backbone. They contend that single-industry towns are at the forefront of extreme spatial and temporal disruptions that are both creative and destructive—these towns revel in rapid growth when a new resource is discovered, but are abandoned just as quickly when the resources run out or prices drop. They use a case study of the forest-industry town of Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada to exemplify Innis's general cyclonic scheme that unites space, time, and staples production.
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