The role of rankings in growing city competition

Urban Research and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 299-312

  Giffinger, Rudolf ^a   Haindlmaier, Gudrun ^a   Kramar, Hans ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

City ranking; Competition; Learning governances

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960610252     PISSN: 17535069     EISSN: 17535077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2010.524420     Document Type: Article

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