From sectors to functions: producer services, metropolization and agglomeration forces in the Ile-de-France region

From sectors to functions: producer services, metropolization and agglomeration forces in the Ile-de-France region

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

producer services

Paris metropolitan region

functional division of labor

concentrated deconcentration

multipolarity

monocentricity

agglomeration economies

This paper reviews the role of producer services in the scientific debate on metropolisation processes and discusses the different types of agglomeration economies. Based on the critical appraisal of sectoral based approaches, it develops a more functional case study of the geography of producer services in the Paris metropolitan region to test the form and nature of economic specialization. The results confirm the multipolar-monocentric pattern which seems to be a common feature in many European cities. The paper concludes on the importance of a functional and hierarchical division of labor in the Paris city-region.

Halbert, Ludovic

Belgeo

2007

ENG

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00278003

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/27/80/03/PDF/Halbert_2007_Belgeo_APS.pdf