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The metropolis in retrospect. From the trading metropolis to the global metropolis

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Lise BOURDEAU-LEPAGE
Jean-Marie HURIOT (Laboratoire dÕEconomie et de Gestion, UniversitŽ de Bourgogne)

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Metropolization is not a new phenomenon : metropolises have been around for centuries. The prime and permanent function of a metropolis is the coordination of economiec activities at a world scale. This function has been applied to different activities in history, depending on technological conditions and economic organization, and consequently it generated different forms of metropolises. The resulting continuities and discontinuities in the metropolises' Žvolution can be understood in terms of agglomeration economies. In the pre-industrial period, the trading metropolis coordinates long range trade. The industrial revolutions generate new needs for coordination of production and give rise to the manufacturing metropolis. Finally, the information revolution and the emergence of the post-industrial economy create the global metropolis.

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Paper provided by Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) in its series Discussion Papers (REL - Recherches Economiques de Louvain) with number 2005031.

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Keywords: High-order services; metropolises; urban history;

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N70 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - General, International, or Comparative
R10 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General
R30 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Production Analysis and Firm Location - - - General

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  1. BOURDEAU-LEPAGE, Lise & HURIOT, Jean-Marie, 2008. "L’idée de région et le fait urbain./ The idea of region and the urban fact," LEG - Document de travail - Economie 2008-03, LEG, Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion, CNRS UMR 5118, Université de Bourgogne. [Downloadable!]
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