“…Urbanisation economies are the advantages of scale that extend to all businesses in urban areas, with such advantages including a varied workforce, developed infrastructure, high levels of business services and interactions and a large local market (Moomaw, 1988). Meyer (2008) used GIS to determine if there was evidence of an agglomeration economy amongst CAM (in this instance, acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, homeopathic and naturopathic) clinics in four cities in Ontario, Canada. Creation of a 'nearest neighbour' index using a GIS indicated if the observed pattern of location points deviated from a theoretical random distribution sufficiently to be considered significantly clustered or dispersed in space (Mitchell, 2005).…”