Intra-metropolitan preferences of property developers in greater Toronto's office market

Geoforum

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1179-1189

  Charney, Igal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Office markets; Property developers; Submarkets; Toronto

Indexed keywords

LOCATION DECISION; METROPOLITAN AREA; PROPERTY MARKET; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 34848866916     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.12.009     Document Type: Article

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