Rethinking the creative city: The role of complexity, networks and interactions in the urban creative economy

Urban Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1157-1179

  Comunian, Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; CULTURAL ECONOMY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INVESTMENT LOCATION; POLICY MAKING; URBAN ECONOMY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79955440254     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098010370626     Document Type: Article

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