Zoning trumps geography where supply is concerned.And higher incomes on the California coast aren't due to any inherent economic advantage but to the fact that cities there are home to extremely productive agglomerations of human capital.
If one assumes that such migrations will lead to the development of productive agglomerations with their own attractive gravity in inland cities, that too offers reason to anticipate more price convergence in places like Phoenix.
It was a function of the technology of shipping, which made it attractive to focus industrial production in massive agglomerations.
Medium-sized agglomerations of 1.5m-6.5m are outperforming bigger ones in terms of environmental protection, economic development, efficient use of resources and the provision of welfare, says McKinsey, a consultancy.
Indeed, vertical integration is likely to become less attractive; instead, the diplomatic art of managing ad hoc partnerships and alliances will become a key executive skill.Many companies may end up as loose agglomerations: networks of smaller firms or individuals bound together by corporate culture and communications.
Muslim business groups were nothing more than temporary agglomerations which dissolved when any partner died or withdrew.
First, by slimming down everywhere (reducing the number of army divisions from 18 to 10, see table) but not by altering the structure of the armed forces, which remain the same agglomerations of mass soldiery and heavy equipment they were in the cold war.
One of the country's largest urban agglomerations, Delhi sits astride (but primarily on the west bank of) the Yamuna River, a tributary of the Ganges (Ganga) River, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Himalayas.
By contrast, wet-rice cultivation, the dominant form of agriculture in Southeast Asia, is sedentary and results in relatively large rural agglomerations with well-developed village life and customs.
Some one-seventh of the country's population is concentrated there, comparable in national significance to the urban agglomerations around Paris, Mexico City, and Tokyo.
The most important agglomerations of figure work to survive are on portals, and, in this, once again, the church of Saint-Denis assumes great significance.
