Building mass customised housing through innovation in the production system: Lessons from Japan

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-20

  Barlow, James ^a   Ozaki, Ritsuko ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; HOUSING PROVISION; INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 13844270870     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3579     Document Type: Article

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