Service industries and Asia-Pacific cities : introduction and overview -- Services, globalization and the Asia-Pacific region -- Services and urban development in the Asia-Pacific Region -- The social geography of the service economy in global cities -- Service industries and occupational change -- The bazaar and the normal : informalization and tertiarization in urban Asia -- Localizing international business services investment : the advertising industry in Southeast Asia -- Producer services and industrial linkages in the Hong Kong-Pearl River Delta region -- Hong Kongs changing role as a global city : the perspective of Japanese electronic MNCs -- Assembling the global schoolhouse in Pacific Asia : the case of Singapore -- Air cargo services, global production networks and competitive advantage in Asian city-regions -- Understanding mega city-region development : a case study of Melbourne -- Service industries and development trajectories in the Seattle metropolitan region -- Service industries and transformation of city-regions in globalizing China : new testing ground for theoretical reconstruction -- IT service industries and the transformation of Seoul

1. Service industries -- East Asia
2. Service industries -- Southeast Asia
3. Service industries -- Pacific Area
4. Urbanization -- East Asia
5. Urbanization -- Southeast Asia
6. Urbanization -- Pacific Area