Diversity and specialisation in cities: Why, where and when does it matter?

Urban Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 533-555

  Duranton, Gilles ^a   Puga, Diego ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; SPECIALIZATION; URBAN ECONOMY;

EID: 0034085798     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098002104     Document Type: Article

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