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Service Industries and Asia-Pacific Cities Service Industries and Asia-Pacific Cities Contributed by distinguished scholars from all over the world, this volume convincingly critiques conventional thinking about service industries and richly documents urban services across the Asia- Pacific region from not only economic but social, political and geographic perspectives. Professor Cindy Fan, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles A timely contribution to our understanding of the dynamism of the region’s economic landscapes, bringing together a number of fascinating studies in an agenda-setting volume. Niall Majury, School of Geography, Queen’s University Belfast During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialisation. 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 the Asia-Pacific the rise of service industries has led to national modernisation programmes and globalisation 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 changes. These changes have created problems such as social polarisation and the displacement of traditional industries and residential districts. Also, there are tensions between local and global processes in the development of service industries, and between the imperatives of competitive advantage and sustainable development. 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. ii P.W.Daniels is Professor of Geography at the University of Birmingham. K.C.Ho is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. T.A.Hutton is a Faculty Associate in the Centre for Human Settlements at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. iii Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia 1 The Changing Capital Markets of 11 Workers and the State in New East Asia Order Indonesia Edited by Ky Cao Vedi R Hadiz 2 Financial Reform in China 12 The Japanese Foreign Exchange Edited by On Kit Tam Market Beate Reszat 3 Women and Industrialization in Asia 13 Exchange Rate Policies in Edited by Susan Horton Emerging Asian Countries Edited by Stefan Collignon, Jean 4 Japan's Trade Policy Pisani-Ferry and Yung Chul Park Action or reaction? Yumiko Mikanagi 14 Chinese Firms and Technology in the Ref form Era 5 The Japanese Election System Yizheng Shi Three analytical perspectives Junichiro Wada 15 Japanese Views on Economic D evelopment 6 The Economics of the Latecomers Diverse paths to the market Catching-up, technology transfer and Kenichi Ohno and Izumi Ohno institutions in Germany, Japan and South Korea 16 Technological Capabilities and Jang-Sup Shin Export Success in Asia Edited by Dieter Ernst, Tom Ganiatsos 7 Industrialization in Malaysia and Lynn Mytelka Import substitution and infant industry performance 17 Trade and Investment in China Rokiah Alavi The European experience Edited by Roger Strange, Jim Slater 8 Economic Development in and Limin Wang Twentieth Century East Asia The international context 18 Technology and Innovation in Edited by Aiko Ikeo Japan Policy and management for the 21st 9 The Politics of Economic century Development in Indonesia Edited by Martin Hemmert and Contending perspectives Christian Oberländer Edited by Ian Chalmers and Vedi Hadiz 19 Trade Policy Issues in Asian Development 10 Studies in the Economic History Prema-chandra Athukorala of the Pacific Rim Edited by Sally M.Miller, 20 Economic Integration in the Asia A.J.H.Latham and Dennis O.Flynn Pacific Region Ippei Yamazawa iv 21 Japan's War Economy Emergence and development 1945– Edited by Erich Pauer 1965 Catherine R.Schenk 22 Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia 32 Impediments to Trade in Industry and firm studies Services: Measurement and Policy Edited by K.S.Jomo, Greg Felker and Implication Rajah Rasiah Edited by Christopher Findlay and Tony Warren 23 Technology, Competitiveness and the State 33 The Japanese Industrial Malaysia’s industrial technology Economy policies Late development and cultural Edited by K.S.Jomo and Greg Felker causation Ian Inkster 24 Corporatism and Korean Capitalism 34 China and the Long March to Edited by Dennis L.McNamara Global Trade The accession of China to the World 25 Japanese Science Trade Organization Samuel Coleman Edited by Alan S.Alexandroff, Sylvia 26 Capital and Labour in Japan Ostry and Rafael Gomez The functions of two factor markets 35 Capitalist Development and Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Atsuhiro Economism in East Asia Taki The rise of Hong Kong, Singapore, 27 Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550± Taiwan, and South Korea 2000 Kui-Wai Li Edited by A.J.H.Latham and Heita 36 Women and Work in Globalizing Kawakatsu Asia 28 The Political Economy of Edited by Dong-Sook S.Gills and Development and Environment in Nicola Piper Korea 37 Financial Markets and Policies in Jae-Yong Chung and Richard J.Kirkby East Asia 29 Japanese Economics and Gordon de Brouwer Economists since 1945 38 Developmentalism and Edited by Aiko Ikeo Dependency in Southeast Asia 30 China's Entry into the World The case of the automotive industry Trade Organisation Jason P.Abbott Edited by Peter Drysdale and Ligang 39 Law and Labour Market Song Regulation in East Asia 31 Hong Kong as an International Edited by Sean Cooney, Tim Lindsey, Financial Centre Richard Mitchell and Ying Zhu v 40 The Economy of the Philippines 49 The Korean Economy at the Elites, inequalities and economic Crossroads restructuring Peter Krinks Edited by MoonJoong Tcha and Chung-Sok Suh 41 China's Third Economic Transformation 50 Ethnic Business The rise of the private economy Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia Edited by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Edited by Jomo K.S. and Brian C.Folk Song 51 Exchange Rate Regimes in East 42 The Vietnamese Economy Asia Awakening the dormant dragon Edited by Gordon de Brouwer and Edited by Binh Tran-Nam and Chi Do Masahiro Kawai Pham 52 Financial Governance in East 43 Restructuring Korea Inc. Asia Jang-Sup Shin and Ha-Joon Chang Policy dialogue, surveillance and cooperation 44 Development and Structural Edited by Gordon de Brouwer and Change in the Asia-Pacific Yunjong Wang Globalising miracles or end of a model? 53 Designing Financial Systems in Edited by Martin Andersson and East Asia and Japan Christer Gunnarsson Edited by Joseph P.H.Fan, Masaharu Hanazaki and Juro Teranishi 45 State Collaboration and Development Strategies in China 54 State Competence and Economic The case of the China-Singapore Growth in Japan Suzhou Industrial Park (1992–2002) Yoshiro Miwa Alexius Pereira 55 Understanding Japanese Saving 46 Capital and Knowledge in Asia Does population aging matter? Changing power relations Robert Dekle Edited by Heidi Dahles and Otto van 56 The Rise and Fall of the East den Muijzenberg Asian Growth System, 1951±2000 47 Southeast Asian Paper Tigers? International competitiveness and From miracle to debacle and beyond rapid economic growth Edited by Jomo K.S. Xiaoming Huang 48 Manufacturing Competitiveness 57 Service Industries and Asia- in Asia Pacific Cities How internationally competitive New development trajectories national firms and industries Edited by P.W.Daniels, K.C.Ho and developed in East Asia T.A.Hutton Edited by Jomo K.S. Service Industries and Asia-Pacific Cities New development trajectories Edited by P.W.Daniels, K.C.Ho and T.A.Hutton LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2005 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2005, editorial matter and selection, P.W.Daniels, K.C.Ho and T.A.Hutton; individual chapters, the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-39058-X Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-66965-7 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-32749-0 (Print Edition) Contents List of figures x List of tables xii List of contributors xiv Preface xix Acknowledgements xxii 1 Service industries and Asia-Pacific cities: introduction and overview 1 P.W.DANIELS, K.C.HO AND T.A.HUTTON PART I Services and urban development in the Asia-PacificÐtheory and context 19 2 Services, globalization and the Asia-Pacific region 21 P.W.DANIELS 3 Services and urban development in the Asia-Pacific region: institutional responses and policy innovation 51 T.A.HUTTON 4 The social geography of the service economy in global cities 77 DAVID LEY 5 Service industries and occupational change: implications for identity, citizenship
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