TY  - BOOK
AU  - Biniwala, Jaydip Pradip
AU  - Mehta, Dinesh (Guide)
TI  - Why agglomeration is still relevant in the case of global cities (Also available on CD)
U1  - P TH-1995 
PY  - 2016///
N1  - CONTENTS Certificate of original authorship . ii  Acknowledgments v  Executive Summary  xi  1 Overview  1  2 Agglomeration . 3  2.1 What is Agglomeration? . 3  2.2 Why does agglomeration happen?  3  2.2.1 Proximity . 3  2.2.2 Options  4  2.3 Locational or Comparative advantage  4  2.4 Agglomeration Economies 5  3 Agglomeration in the era before 1980’s  7  3.1 Industrial Location Theory . 7  3.2 Hoteling’s Law 8  3.3 Competitive advantage 11  4 Agglomeration Today  13  4.1 Collaborative advantage 14  4.2 Globalization . 15  4.2.1 Global Cities . 16  5 Financial Services. . 19  5.1 London  19  5.1.1 History of London . 19  5.2 New York  23  5.2.1 History of New York. 23  5.2.2 New York, Now  25 5.3 Singapore  28  6 IT & ITeS . 31  6.1 Silicon Valley 31  6.3 Bangalore  36  7 Analysis 41  7.1 Knowledge is Sticky . 42  7.2 Decentralized operations and externalization, needs a better control . 44  7.3 Desirability of certain locations  46  7.4 Network of Complementors and Competitors  49  7.5 Agglomeration Economies 52  8 Implications of these learnings  55  Bibliography  vii
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