Peter James Taylor (born 21 November 1944) is an English geographer. Born in Calverton in Nottinghamshire, he was Professor of Political Geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne between 1970 and 1996, before joining Loughborough University as Professor of Geography Since 2010, he has worked at Northumbria University. He is the co-founding editor of the journal Political Geography, and is the founder and director of the Globalization and World Cities Research Network and is the author of over 300 publications, of which over 60 have been translated into other languages. In September 2010, he became a Professor of Geography at Northumbria University. In 2004, Taylor was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy. Publications International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities (2011) Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State, Locality (2011) Global Urban Analysis: a Survey of Cities in Globalization (2010) Cities in Globalization (2006) World City Network: a Global Urban Analysis (2004) Modernities: a Geohistorical Introduction (1999) The Way the Modern World Works: from World Hegemony to World Impasse (1996) References External links Professor Peter Taylor , homepage at Department of Geography, Loughborough University Professor Peter J Taylor, homepage at Department of Geography and Environment, Northumbria University Urban theorists British geographers Political geographers Academics of Loughborough University Academics of Northumbria University Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Fellows of the British Academy People educated at Henry Mellish Grammar School 1944 births Living people People from Calverton, Nottinghamshire