Life cycles, contingency, and agency: Growth, development, and change in English industrial districts and clusters

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2975-2992

  Popp, Andrew ^a   Wilson, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MODELING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38049186810     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38403     Document Type: Article

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