Revisiting the 'informational city': Space of flows, polycentricity and the geography of knowledge-intensive business services in the emerging global city-region of Dublin

Regional Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1133-1146

  Sokol, Martin ^a   Van Egeraat, Chris ^b   Williams, Brendan ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

City region; Dublin; Knowledge intensive business services (KIBS); Polycentricity

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; DECENTRALIZATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; SERVICE SECTOR; URBAN ECONOMY;

COUNTY DUBLIN; DUBLIN [COUNTY DUBLIN]; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; LEINSTER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 53549133983     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400801932284     Document Type: Article

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