Empirical studies, whilst they reve

Empirical studies, whilst they reveal particular patterns or processes, do not disprove the existence of others that have not been sought. It is difficult to refute the idea that a city has multiple structures: even in the very focussed area concerned with processes that govern the intra-metropolitan location of high-order services, the processes that govern the location of new-build office space (Lang, 2003) are not necessarily the same as those that govern the location of management consultant employment (Shearmur & Alvergne, 2002), or the same as those that govern the location of head-offices (Jakobsen, 2005).