On the edge of something big: Edge-city economic development in Croydon, south London

Town Planning Review

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 441-465

  Phelps, Nicholas A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EDGE CITY; URBAN ECONOMY;

CROYDON; LONDON; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032443777     PISSN: 00410020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.69.4.dv1t387m20078jjp     Document Type: Article

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