Finance is a necessary resource for the development of regions,
cities, and industries, but also represents a system of human-environment
relationships central to their evolution. To explain and illustrate this
argument, I will talk about regions, cities, and industries across times and
places from a financial geography perspective. Illustrations will come
from Atlas of Finance: Mapping
the Global Story of Money – the first ever book-size collection of maps
and visuals dedicated to the topic of finance and a unique exploration of the
development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and
covers five thousand years of history. With word and image, the atlas aims at
changing the way people view both their money and their world. Whether we focus
on financial centre development, financial innovation, financial instability or
other topics, we cannot understand regions, cities, and industries without
understanding finance.
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lesa.reynolds@regionalstudies.org