Seoul: Birth of a broadband metropolis

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 396-413

  Townsend, Anthony M ^a  

^a Institute for the Future   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; SEOUL [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 34250319766     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b32036t     Document Type: Article

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