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Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities New Development Trajectories
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During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services, have become deeply embedded in the processes of urban growth. In Asia-Pacific the rise of service industries has lead to national modernization... Read more
Section 1: Services and Development in the Asia-Pacific-Theory and Context Section 2: Services and Urban Development in the Asia-Pacific: Sectoral Perspectives Section 3: Services and Urban Development in the Asia-Pacific: City Case-Studies. Bibliography. Index
Biography
Peter W. Daniels is Professor of Geography at the University of Birmingham, Tom Hutton is Associate Professor at the Centre for Human Settlements, University of British Columbia, and Ho Kong Chong is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.
'This book adds to the literature on "service economies" by examining the role of advanced services in the transformation of cities of the Asia Pacific region. Its central aim is to show that in this context, the growth and urbanization of service industries have not followed the Western model, but have forged a new path in which advanced level services act as key drivers of economic and urban change.' - Economic Geography 2006
