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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784680003321

Titolo

Service industries and Asia-Pacific cities : new development trajectories / / edited by P.W. Daniels, K.C. Ho and T.A. Hutton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-33736-1

1-134-33737-X

1-280-15233-8

0-203-39058-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia ; ; 57

Classificazione

85.40

Altri autori (Persone)

DanielsP. W

HoKong-Chong <1955->

HuttonT. A (Thomas A.)

Disciplina

338.4/095

Soggetti

Service industries - East Asia

Service industries - Southeast Asia

Service industries - Pacific Area

Urbanization - East Asia

Urbanization - Southeast Asia

Urbanization - Pacific Area

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I Services and urban development in the Asia-Pacific; Part II Services and urban development in the Asia-Pacific; Part III Services and urban development in the Asia-Pacific

Sommario/riassunto

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 programmes and globalization strategies. Services are also driving change in the internal form of city regions and are being actively deployed as instruments of



metropolitan reconfiguration and land use