Gain crucial insights into urban and regional development trajectories within contemporary capitalism. This seminal work presents an integrated methodology, reviving space and history-sensitive theories overlooked by mainstream analyses. Understand how globalization and policy shifts impact socio-economic development, spatial inequalities, and growth. It offers a sophisticated interdisciplinary framework, essential for students, researchers, and professionals in urban planning, economics, and sociology seeking to analyze complex development patterns and their real-world consequences in a globalized era.