Stormy weather: cyclones, Harold Innes, and Port Alberni, BC.
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 th...
| Publicado en: | Environment & Planning A Vol. 33; no. 12; pp. 2127 - 2148 |
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Pion Limited
December 2001
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