Multimedia and internet business clusters in central tokyo

Urban Geography

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 483-500

  Arai, Yoshio ^a   Sato, Hideto ^a   Nakazawa, Takashi ^a   Musha, Tadahiko ^a   Sugizaki, Kazuhiro ^a   Nakamura, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Industrial clusters; Internet; Multimedia; Tokyo

Indexed keywords

HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO]; TOKYO [TOKYO (PRF)]; WORLD;

EID: 11244319322     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.25.5.483     Document Type: Article

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