Connecting rhine-main: The production of multi-scalar polycentricities through knowledge-intensive business services

Regional Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1095-1111

  Hoyler, Michael ^a   Freytag, Tim ^b   Mager, Christoph ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

City region; Connectivity; Knowledge intensive business services; Polycentricity; Rhine Main

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; CONNECTIVITY; KNOWLEDGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; MODELING; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 53549112491     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400701874230     Document Type: Article

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