{"title":"Zooming-in: Expanding the micro-geographic perspective in economic geography","authors":"Etienne Capron , Raphaël Suire","doi":"10.1016/j.peg.2025.100048","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While economic geography is mainly concerned with regional and global dynamics, this paper examines the relevance of the micro-geographical perspective that has recently emerged to study the specificities of what happens within city-regions. This perspective aims to produce analysis closer to economic agents, with a particular focus on small-scale spatial units to provide a more nuanced understanding of economic dynamics at the neighborhood, street or building levels. We advocate embracing the potential of this line of research to advance economic geography, given that micro-geography can intersect different theoretical paradigms, methodological approaches and emerging themes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101047,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Economic Geography","volume":"3 2","pages":"Article 100048"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Progress in Economic Geography","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949694225000136","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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While economic geography is mainly concerned with regional and global dynamics, this paper examines the relevance of the micro-geographical perspective that has recently emerged to study the specificities of what happens within city-regions. This perspective aims to produce analysis closer to economic agents, with a particular focus on small-scale spatial units to provide a more nuanced understanding of economic dynamics at the neighborhood, street or building levels. We advocate embracing the potential of this line of research to advance economic geography, given that micro-geography can intersect different theoretical paradigms, methodological approaches and emerging themes.