Service industries and Asia-Pacific cities
Subtitle: new development trajectories
By: edited by P.W. Daniels, K.C. Ho, and T.A. Hutton.
Contributors: Daniels, P. W.; Ho, Kong-Chong, 1955-; Hutton, T. A.
Series: RoutledgeCurzon studies in the growth economies of Asia ;; 57
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Service industries -- East Asia.; Service industries -- Asia, Southeastern.; Service industries -- Pacific Area.; Urbanization -- East Asia.; Urbanization -- Asia, Southeastern.; Urbanization -- Pacific Area.
Description: "Service Industries and Asia-Pacific Cities brings together a multi-disciplinary team of experts to explore and illustrate the theoretical, conceptual and practical issues arising from the transformation of Asia-Pacific cities by service industries."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Service industries and Asia-Pacific cities / P.W. Daniels, T.A. Hutton, and K.C. Ho; title: Services, globalisation, and the Asia-Pacific Region / P.W. Daniels; title: Service industries and urban development in the Asia-Pacific Region / T.A. Hutton; title: The social geography of the service economy in global cities / David Ley; title: Service industries and occupational change / K.C. Ho; title: The bazaar and the normal; title: informalization and tertiarization in urban Asia / Michael Leaf; title: Localising business services investment / Larissa Muller; title: Producer services and industrial linkages in the Hong Kong-Pearl River Delta region / Anthony G.-O. Yeh; title: The regional service centres of Japanese electronics firms in the greater China circle / David Edgington and Roger Hayter; title: Assembling the "global schoolhouse" in Pacific Asia / Kris Olds and Nigel Thift; title: Air cargo services, global production networks, and competitive advantage in Asia city regions / Thomas R. Leinbach and John T. Bowen, Jr.; title: Understanding mega-city region development / Kevin O'Connor; title: Service industries and development trajectories in the Seattle Metropolitan Region / W.B. Beyers; title: Service industries and transformation of city-regions in globalizing China / George C. Lin; title: IT service industries and the transformation of Seoul / Sam Ock Park and Ji Sun Choi; title: Conclusion / the editors.