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100			_aVille, Simon _935968
245			_aBuzz and Pipelines: Knowledge and Decision-Making in a Global Business Services Precinct
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 45, Issue 2, 2019 (191-210 p.)
520			_aThis paper provides a historical analysis of an urban services district through its examination of the Melbourne wool trade precinct in the 1920s. It is a study of both a local and global community whose social and spatial interaction facilitated large-scale trade of a complex commodity that has rarely been examined. Geographic mapping of the local and global connections of the precinct has been combined with archival evidence. It reveals the “buzz” of the Melbourne precinct, created by local social and professional connections among wool brokers and buyers. “Pipelines” to wool growing and textile regions were developed through overseas branches of firms, with global knowledge exchanged through correspondence, telegraph, and migration. These features shaped the progress of the trade, facilitating improvements in its infrastructure and in the ability of Melbourne’s wool brokers and buyers to fulfill their role as intermediaries in the global supply chain for this complex commodity.
650			_aindustrial districts, _935976
650			_a urban services district, _935977
650			_a wool trade, _935971
650			_ageographic information system (GIS), _933739
650			_acommodity trades _935972
700			_aClaire Wright _935978
773	0		_011044 _915476 _dSage, 2019. _tJournal of urban history
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218765456
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