Between accumulation and concentration of capital: Toward a framework for comparing long-term trajectories of urban systems

Urban Geography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-73

  Kloosterman, Robert C ^a   Lambregts, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agglomeration economies; Comparative research; Global city region; London; Path dependency; Polycentric; Post industrial transition; Randstad

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CAPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; URBAN SYSTEM; WORLD CITY;

BENELUX; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; NETHERLANDS; RANDSTAD; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34247194576     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.28.1.54     Document Type: Article

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