Neo-industrial Tokyo: Urban development and globalisation in Japan's state-centred developmental capitalism

Urban Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 249-281

  Fujita, Kuniko ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; GLOBALIZATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOKYO;

EID: 0037308311     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980220080271     Document Type: Article

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