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Theoretical "Groundwork" for Ghost Metropolis

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The theoretical groundwork for Ghost Metropolis is developed extensively in:

Philip J. Ethington, “Placing the Past: ‘Groundwork’ for a Spatial Theory of History,” with responses by Thomas Bender, David Carr, Edward Casey, Edward Dimendberg, and Alun Munslow, Rethinking History 11:4 (December 2007): 463-530.

Philip J. Ethington, “Sociovisual Perspective: Vision and the Forms of the Human Past,” in Barbara Stafford, ed, A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Philip J. Ethington, “Comment and Afterword: Photography and Placing the Past,” Journal of Visual Culture December 2010 9 (3): 439-448.

Philip J. Ethington and Nobuko Toyosawa, “Inscribing the Past: Depth as Narrative in Historical Spacetime,” in David Bodenhamer, ed, Deep Mapping and Spatial Narratives (Indiana University Press, 2014).

Ethington, Philip J.  and D. Levitus, 2009.  “Placing American Political Development: Cities, Regions, and Regimes, 1789-2008” in The City in American Political Development, edited by Richardson Dilworth, (New York: Routledge): 154-176.

Ethington, Philip J. and Jason McDaniel. 2007 “Political places and institutional spaces: The intersection of political science and political geography,” in Annual Review of Political Science 10 (2007): 127-143.

Ethington and Eileen L. McDonagh, editors, of "Polity Forum: Institutions and Institutionalism” Polity 28:1 (Fall 1995): 83-140.

Ethington and  Eileen L. McDonagh, “The Common Space of Social Science Inquiry,” Polity 28:1 (Fall 1995): 85-90.