Again, the significance of using different metaphors to talk about the scaled relationships between places is not to suggest that these different metaphors necessarily represent empirically different situations or that one is necessarily a better representation of the world and all its complexities than is another. Rather, such an appreciation of metaphor is important because it suggests that how we talk about scale impacts the ways in which we engage socially and politically with our scaled world – notwithstanding Marston et al.’s (2005) assertion that the world is, in scalar terms, fundamentally flat – and that this, in turn, may impact how we conduct our social, economic and political praxis and so make geographical landscapes