goods had been shipped from the factories of east London to the world; between 1961 and 1993 manufacturing employment in London fell from 1.6 million to 328,000. During the mid-1990s, Leeds took advantage of the internet's arrival as part of the .com boom. It became the UK's first city to have full broadband and digital coverage, making it a very attractive place for corporations to expand, particularly when opening call centres. During the changing 1990s, Leeds had better connections to London than any other UK city, being 2 hours from London by train. As a result, it is now the UK's 2nd largest financial and legal centre, and the UK's largest e-business sector with more than 1/3 of the UK's internet traffic passing through the city. In this respect, Canary Wharf and Leeds are arguably more symbolic of the changed economic geography of the UK than any other place. Quotes References and further reading An Historical Geography of England and Wales, Robert A. Dodgshon, R.A. Butlin, Academic Press, The Changing Geography of the United Kingdom Hugh Matthews, Vince Gardiner (eds), Routledge, Spatial Divisions of Labour, Doreen Massey, Macmillan, See also Economy of the United Kingdom Geography of the United Kingdom Culture of the United Kingdom Politics of the United Kingdom List of renewable resources produced and traded by the United Kingdom References External links Office of the Deputy Prime Minister – controls regional policy Department of Trade and Industry UK non-financial business economy: 2014 regional results (Annual Business Survey) Geography of the United Kingdom Economic geography