 Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world. It represents a traditional subfield of the discipline of geography. However, many economists have also approached the field in ways more typical of the discipline of economics. Economic geography has taken the variety of approaches to many different subject matters, including the location of industries, economies of agglomeration also known as linkages transportation, international trade, development, real estate, gentrification, ethnic economies, gendered economies, corporate theory, the economics of urban form, the relationship between the environment and the economy dying into a long history of geographers studying culture environment interaction and globalization.