ABSTRACT
It was suggested at the beginning of this book that services of one kind or another permeate almost every facet of life in the modern world. This has made it all the more surprising that relatively little attention has been given to variations in the spatial patterns of services which ‘ought to be the first task of a geography of services. Linking specific services with certain locations and elucidating the reasons for the linkages observed could not fail to improve our understanding of human geography on the one hand and of the socioeconomic functioning of society on the other’ (Gottman, 1983, 63). An attempt has been made in the preceding chapters to rectify some of these oversights.
