The geography of services is no longer of local or national
significance: it now embraces the international stage. Service
industries have enabled, and themselves become participants in,
world trade. Although this is not a new role, during the 1980s they
have become a much more active ingredient in the process of social
and economic change.
New and diversified service products have generated increased
consumption, ranging from tourism and leisure, to sophisticated
innovations in ways of making finance capital available for
corporate growth or production strategies. But there are spatial
variations between the world's nations, regions and cities that
ensure a highly uneven ability to supply services, and to generate
demand. There are contrasts between the developed, less-developed,
and post-socialist economies of Eastern Europe, for example, and
between major metropolitan areas around the globe in the extent to
which they experience the positive (as well as negative) effects of
the internationalization of the service economy.
This book examines some explanations for the expanding role of
services in the world economy. It is suggested that the resulting
patterns are particularly significant for the form and function of
the global urban system. The book concludes by reflecting on the
future role of services in the world economy: can the trends
evident for the 1980s be assumed to shape the evolving geography of
services during the 1990s and beyond?
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