and Los Angeles, is particularly hard to break.
But since command functions have been a
strong growth sector these last two decades
(employment in finance and insurance has
doubled in Britain in less than a decade), so pursuit
of them has more and more appealed as the
golden path to urban survival. The effect, of
course, is to make it appear as if the city of the
future is going to be a city of pure command
and control functions, an informational city, a
post-industrial city in which the export of services
(financial, informational, knowledge-producing)
becomes the economic basis for urban
survival.