London's and New York's advertising and law clusters and their networks of learning: Relational analyses with a politics of scale?

Urban Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1635-1656

  Faulconbridge, James R ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LEGISLATION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548422388     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980701426657     Document Type: Article

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