World city Services Flashcards
New forms of transportation and communications was expected to
Reduce clustering devices in large cities
Why are world cities ost closely integrated into the global economic system
Center of flow of info and and capital
Services in world cities
Business serrvices- law banking insurance accounting advertising
What helped decentralize economic activities
Telegraph telephone
Computer
Rail road vehicles
Airplane
how does transportation reinforce the primacy of word cities
World cities tend to have harbors
Airports
Junction of rail and highways
Why are business services clustered In cities
Industrial revolution.
——-services of national signifigance cluster in world cities because——
leisure
they require large threshold/ranges
and wealthy people
world cents can have be centers of what public services
national/international political power
Like head of states live in world cities…. offices for govnt agencies and stuff
