Employment decentralisation: Polycentricity or scatteration? the case of Barcelona

Urban Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3035-3056

  Garcia López, Miquel Àngel ^a   Muñiz, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; MEGACITY; URBAN GROWTH;

BARCELONA [BARCELONA (PRV)]; BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 78650131118     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098009360229     Document Type: Article

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