GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Docklands Light Railway, Mcjob, London Waterloo Station
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Central place theory: towns and cities were connected by local market relations. But changes are afoot: old set of urban relationships unravel, cities selling themselves to the whole world. Ie chinese food is popular all around the world, that could inluence people to want to go to china to try the food authentically. Where decisions about where capital is made, is downtown (like. Over 20th and 21st centuries irms have become larger, requiring increasing specialized information. That info is provided by producer services (advertisers, lawyers, accountants, architects) Producer services found in large (information rich) cities. The larger the city, the more info available for corporate decision making. Last 30 years, rapid and pervasive internationalisation of business (mncs and tncs) Corporations keep track of the large world cities. They control what goes on in their own cities and what goes on around the world: inside the world city. Emblematic of processes found across global northern cities.
