Includes bibliographical references and index.

Service industries and Asia-Pacific cities : introduction and overview / P.W. Daniels, K.C. Ho and T.A. Hutton -- Services, globalization and the Asia-Pacific Region / P.W. Daniels -- Services and urban development in the Asia-Pacific Region / T.A. Hutton -- The social geography of the service economy in global cities / David Ley -- Service industries and occupational change / K.C. Ho -- The bazaar and the normal : informalization and tertiarization in urban Asia / Michael Leaf -- Localizing international business services investment : the advertising industry in Southeast Asia / Larissa Muller -- Producer services and industrial linkages in the Hong Kong-Pearl River Delta region / Anthony G.O. Yeh -- Hong Kong's changing role as a global city : the perspective of Japanese electronic MNCs / David W. Edgington and Roger Hayter -- Assembling the 'global schoolhouse' in Pacific Asia : the case of Singapore / Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift -- Air cargo services, global production networks and competitive advantage in Asian city-regions / Thomas R. Leinbach and John T. Bowen, Jr. -- Understanding mega city-region development : a case study of Melbourne / Kevin O'Connor -- Service industries and development trajectories in the Seattle metropolitan region / W.B. Beyers -- Service industries and transformation of city-regions in globalizing China : new testing ground for theoretical reconstruction / George C.S. Lin -- IT service industries and the transformation of Seoul / Sam Ock Park and Ji Sun Choi -- Epilogue / P.W. Daniels, K.C. Ho and T.A. Hutton.