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The City as a Terminal: The Urban Context of Logistics and Freight Transport – By Marcus Hesse
Author(s) -
Knight Laurence
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
geographical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.695
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-5871
pISSN - 1745-5863
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2010.00655.x
Subject(s) - knight , context (archaeology) , terminal (telecommunication) , citation , history , sociology , library science , engineering , computer science , archaeology , telecommunications , physics , astronomy
Cities are focal points for both social and economic\udinteraction. Most of the manufacture and\udfinal consumption of goods in western nations\udtake place in urban regions. The implementation\udof new technologies, the evolution of organisational\udstructures, and changing patterns of\uddemand, transport options and costs, labour, and\udspatial relations in urban regions are altering the\uddynamics of goods distribution