This article analyses three recent shifts in what called the geography of "Big Things", meaning the contemporary functions and adaptability of modern city centre architecture. We periodise the three styles conventionally into the fashionable "Starchitecture" of the 1990s, the repurposed...

This paper compares and contrasts three disruptive models of potential and actual new kinds of spatial planning. These include “seasteading”, “smart neighbourhoods” and “renewable spatial systems”. Each is labelled with distinctive discursive titles, respectively: “Attention...

In her study of "Surveillance Capitalism", Shoshana Zuboff cites Google´s parent firm Alphabet´s legal customer-purchase agreement for the parent firm´s Nest thermostats. These impose "oppressive privacy and security consequences" requiring sensitive information to be shared through...

This contribution develops critique from analysing forms of misconduct by knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms, especially the largest, globally located and client-interactive on all five continents. Management consultancy infractions range from supplying spurious advice, to...

In this contribution, the interest is in three things, arising from a project on 'dark' F-KIBS clusters. This has already resulted in critical papers on management consultancy and accounting 'assemblages' in which such clusters are embedded (Cooke, 2003b, Cooke, 2023a). Questions posed are:...

This paper explores digital reality replication for cultural consumption and green-digital open-system innovation, along with responsible, sustainable practices fashioned in a post-COVID-19 era. We address these after the dystopian effects of lockdown on global tourism and, in particular, the...