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The metropolis in retrospect : from the trading metropolis to the global metropolis

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  • Lise Bourdeau-Lepage

    (LEG - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion - UB - Université de Bourgogne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jean-Marie Huriot

    (LEG - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion - UB - Université de Bourgogne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

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' évolution 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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  • Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & Jean-Marie Huriot, 2005. "The metropolis in retrospect : from the trading metropolis to the global metropolis," Post-Print halshs-00009636, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00009636
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    1. Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & Jean-Marie Huriot, 2009. "L'idée de région et le fait urbain The idea of region and the urban fact," Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine, Armand Colin, vol. 0(2), pages 267-287.
    2. Lise Bourdeau-Lepage, 2014. "Greater Paris: A Plan for a Global City," ERSA conference papers ersa14p867, European Regional Science Association.
    3. Lise BOURDEAU-LEPAGE & Frédéric GASCHET & Claude LACOUR & Sylvette PUISSANT, 2011. "Metropolitanization 15 years after (In French)," Cahiers du GREThA (2007-2019) 2011-13, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA).

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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, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General
    • R30 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - General

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