Does distance matter in the age of the Internet?

Urban Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2747-2783

  Mok, Diana ^a   Wellman, Barry ^b   Carrasco, Juan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INTERNET; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 78549289931     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098010377363     Document Type: Article

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