The role of 'hard' and 'soft' factors for accommodating creative knowledge: Insights from Dublin's 'creative class'

Irish Geography

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-84

  Murphy, Enda ^a   Redmond, Declan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Creative cities; Creative class; Creative economy; Location theory; New economy

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; KNOWLEDGE; REGIONAL ECONOMY; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY; WORKPLACE;

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

EID: 69249084008     PISSN: 00750778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00750770902815620     Document Type: Article

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