Services and Metropolitan Centres: the Expansion and Location of Business Services

The expansion and localisation of business services cannot be understood or analysed just from the point of view of demand. Expansion and localisation depend very much on supply factors (specific advantages of production costs; access to information, etc.). This confers particularly high advantages of attraction and possibilities of development of these services in specific cities or metropolitan centres. The analyses of cases in Spain show some features which are evidently common to other European countries: strong concentration of services in the central nucleus of the metropolitan areas and concentration of said services in some very specific urban zones and axes which permits reference to a concentration within a concentration.