This paper is concerned with conceptual frameworks in urban geography. It seeks to reestablish the validity of research at the institutional level albeit set within a broad political economy of urbanism. It also argues the need both to recognise and to explain the high degree of variation which exists within institutions operating in the urban realm.
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