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How Does Globalization Affect The Economy Of Sydney

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As a result of this economic drive, an influence was evident on the spatial economic makeup of Sydney. The unemployment ‘map’ of the city was distributed into two opposing fragments, illustrative of contemporaneous social geography. The highest rates of unemployment were marked in the western and south-western suburbs, while the lowest rates occupied the northern suburbs. In place of this, the service sector, specifically finance, business, retail, community service, professional, and wholesale, sprouted. However, this was not sufficient to counterbalance the unemployment rates. In 1996, the services industry comprised a large 40% of employment, a step up from just 24% in 1971 (Fagan & Webber 1999), of which was concentrating in the inner city and neighbouring regions (Forster 2006). In observation of these dynamics, the extent to which the urban layout of progressive producer services and the additional locations of corporate headquarters have been altered by the forces of globalisation is evident. …show more content…

But in conjunction with this “socio-spatial cleavage”, and decentralisation of employment for a large number of people, such an arrangement also led to a high level of automobile use. 58% of workers in Sydney were now travelling to work by car (Forster 2004). Accordingly, this spatial mismatch of the city is further evident upon observing that residents in the outer areas were made to travel lengthier distances in order to access high-order employment, with a lack of these jobs being situated in the outward

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