Global architects: Learning and innovation through communities and constellations of practice

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2842-2858

  Faulconbridge, James R ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; INNOVATION; LEARNING;

EID: 78650398708     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a4311     Document Type: Article

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