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The City: Centre of Economic Reflexivity

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  • Michael Storper

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Each of the four main theories developed in recent years to explain contemporary urbanisation - the ‘global city’, the ‘world city’, the ‘informational city’ and the ‘post-fordist city’ - has important theoretical and empirical lacunae. Instead, the raison d’être of the city in an economy increasingly liberated from the frictions of distance is as a centre of economic activity which relies on reflexive human action. The activities which can be defined as reflexive cut across the normal categories of activity ascribed to cities (services, informational, high technology, advanced services), including parts of these activities and parts of other sectors. This analysis calls for new categories of analysis and measurement of contemporary urbanisation.

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  • Michael Storper, 1997. "The City: Centre of Economic Reflexivity," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(1), pages 1-27, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:17:y:1997:i:1:p:1-27
    DOI: 10.1080/02642069700000001
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    1. Bob Jessop & Ngai-Ling Sum, 2000. "An Entrepreneurial City in Action: Hong Kong's Emerging Strategies in and for (Inter)Urban Competition," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 37(12), pages 2287-2313, November.
    2. Lei Wang & Wenyi Yang & Yueyun Yuan & Chengliang Liu, 2019. "Interurban Consumption Flows of Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River: A Network Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-14, January.
    3. Galdeano-Gómez, Emilio & Céspedes-Lorente, José, 2008. "Environmental spillover effects on firm productivity and efficiency: An analysis of agri-food business in Southeast Spain," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 67(1), pages 131-139, August.

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