'Complexcities': Locational choices of creative knowledge workers

Built Environment

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 238-252

  Brown, Julie ^a   Meczyński, Michał ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SENSE OF PLACE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN AREA;

BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; CENTRAL EUROPE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; POZNAN [POLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 68349091285     PISSN: 02637960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2148/benv.35.2.238     Document Type: Article

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