see also Asian TNCs
transportation 137–9
two-route strategy 176
UK, regional competitiveness 160
unemployment 239–40
unions 96–7
United
States
market capitalism 210
political consciousness 211
promotion of market states 223
universality-particularity
continuum
25, 31–2
universities, changes in 34–5
unlocated theory 35
untraded interdependencies
166, 247, 249
urban
competitiveness
160, 161, 164, 170
see also regional competitiveness
urban development 86, 90
urban geography 26, 35, 106
urbanization 106, 108
urban landscape 90, 106
urban structure 237
valorization process 176
value theory 49, 50, 95, 105
Vance, Jay 106, 107
vehicle assembly industry 198
Vietnam war 96
voice-over-Internet-Protocol
telephony 139
volition 74
Voorburg
Group on Services
Statistics 116
Index
259
260
Index
Wales, economy 203
Washington consensus 153
Washington
school of economic
geography 200
water supply 129
WEEE legislation 130
welfare geography 175
welfare state 58
west-European left-Marxism 175
Wolman, Reds 104
women, dual role 37
worklessness, concentrations of 240–41