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Services and high skills: a new challenge for developing medium-sized cities

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  • Pierre-Yves Léo
  • Jean Philippe
  • Marie-Christine Monnoyer

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Medium-sized cities are often considered as a valuable substitute to a large metropolis as they may promote better sustainable growth. However, these second rank conurbations do not benefit from economies of scale as do larger cities. They share some characteristics with a big metropolis, notably their spatial spreading on surroundings areas, but are not able to attract high-order service functions. The research reported here is supported by a statistical analysis of censuses from 1982 to 1999. It highlights the service-location patterns of medium-sized cities compared with metropolises, proposes a typology of medium-sized cities based on their economic structure and tries to explain through regression analysis the growth sources of their economy.

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  • Pierre-Yves Léo & Jean Philippe & Marie-Christine Monnoyer, 2009. "Services and high skills: a new challenge for developing medium-sized cities," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(4), pages 513-529, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:30:y:2009:i:4:p:513-529
    DOI: 10.1080/02642060903078768
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