Measuring polycentricity and its promises

European Planning Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1313-1323

  Meijers, Evert ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; RESEARCH WORK; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN SOCIETY; URBAN SYSTEM;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 56349139650     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654310802401805     Document Type: Article

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