Commentary
Urban population loss in historical perspective: United States, 1820 – 2000 514 – 528
Robert A Beauregard
The white geography of Lawren Stewart Harris: whiteness and the performative coupling of wilderness and multiculturalism in Canada 529 – 544
Andrew Baldwin
Cosmopolitan militarism? Spaces of NATO expansion 545 – 562
Merje Kuus
The financial centres of Shanghai and Hong Kong: competition or complementarity? 563 – 580
Bas Karreman, Bert van der Knaap
Migration, urbanization, and drug use and casual sex in China: a multilevel analysis 581 – 597
Xiushi Yang, Huasong Luo
Regional variations in voting at British general elections, 1950 – 2001: group-based latent trajectory analysis 598 – 616
Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Min-Hua Jen
Soft spaces, fuzzy boundaries, and metagovernance: the new spatial planning in the Thames Gateway 617 – 633
Phil Allmendinger, Graham Haughton
The parallel claims of gated communities and land invasions in a Southern city: polarised state responses 634 – 648
Charlotte Lemanski, Sophie Oldfield
How normal is travelling abroad? Differences in transnational mobility between groups of young Swedes 649 – 667
Lotta Frändberg
Fit and working again? The instrumental leisure of the ‘creative class’ 668 – 681
Mark Banks
Explanations for the age, sex, spatial, and temporal structure of Czech mortality for the period 1987 – 97 682 – 702
Jeroen Spijker
A particular place? Laos and its incorporation into the development mainstream 703 – 721
Jonathan Rigg
Simultaneous coefficient penalization and model selection in geographically weighted regression: the geographically weighted lasso 722 – 742
David C Wheeler
Complementarity and substitutability among adjacent gateway ports 743 – 762
Theo E Notteboom
