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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455230603321

Autore

Daniels P. W.

Titolo

Service industries : a geographical appraisal / / P.W. Daniels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Methuen, , 1985

ISBN

1-135-83624-8

0-429-23276-4

0-203-24093-6

1-280-40451-5

0-203-47257-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Disciplina

338.6/042

Soggetti

Service industries - Location

Industrial location

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; Service industries: identity and delimitation; Service industries in the economy: some preliminary empirical evidence; Some causes and further consequences of the emergence of services; Service industry location: the central place model; Service industry location: beyond the central place model; Equity and access: public and private consumer services; Inter-sectoral dependence, centralization and producer services; Locational dynamics of producer and consumer services: competition between CBD and suburbs

Public policies, institutions and the location of services New technology and the geography of services; Alternative bases for classifying service industries; Structure of the labour force, by occupation status and ratio of female to male employees in each occupation group, selected countries; Shift-share analysis; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The first major synthesis of an emerging geography which is undoubtedly changing the way in which academics, planners and



policy-makers identify and interpret the spatial development of cities and regions in the 1980's.