The Growing Localness of the Global City

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ID4041600
AuthorsJ Persky (0000-0003-2183-9019, Institute for Women's Policy Research), Wim Wiewel (University of Illinois Chicago)
Year1994
Volume70
Issue2
Pages129
Publication date1994-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/143651
OpenAlexW2332588410
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited6

An increasing share of economic activity in large metropolitan areas serves local markets. For such areas, other researchers have demonstrated the rising importance of internationally oriented activities. These findings are not necessarily contradictory. The shares of both local and internationally oriented activities have grown at the expense of manufacturing production oriented to national markets. Even allowing for the expansion of traded producer services in global cities and other large metropolitan areas, the decline of manufacturing and the continuing expansion of consumer services imply a growing local share. This proposition is supported by using a minimum requirements approach to measuring changes in the local share for large metropolitan areas. The basic data are for payroll by two-digit industries in U.S. metropolitan areas with more than one million people for 1969, 1979, and 1989. Important implications for public policy center on the use of the nonmobile, local sector to advance local economic development goals. Such policies, if successful, will yield gains not only to the local labor force, but also to locally oriented businesses

Economic geography · Geography · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis

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