Why and How Place Matters

Abstract

Recent decades produced progress and wealth for many, at the same time the inequalities grew alike. This is what the current historical conjuncture painfully reveals. Urgently asking for new paradigms of learning, trading and collaboration, the theoretical dimension of place is crucial. However, we do not know to see tangible, clear steps yet. Moving at the crossroads of current transformative trajectories in the Eastern and Western hemisphere and at a global scale, this chapter shall offer a few foundational thoughts in this regard.