Competitiveness AND Sustainability: Can 'Smart City Regionalism' Square the Circle?

Urban Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2332-2348

  Herrschel, Tassilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; GLOBALIZATION; GROWTH THEORY; INNOVATION; POLICY MAKING; REGIONALISM; SUSTAINABILITY; TERRITORIALITY; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; SEATTLE; UNITED STATES; VANCOUVER; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84880675143     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098013478240     Document Type: Article

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