The competition state, city-regions, and the territorial politics of growth facilitation

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2379-2398

  While, Aidan ^a   Gibbs, David ^b   Jonas, Andrew E G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

City regions; Clusters; Competitiveness; Governance; Growth

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPETITIVENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; TERRITORIALITY; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN POLITICS;

BAVARIA; CAMBRIDGE; CAMBRIDGESHIRE; ENGLAND; GERMANY; MUNICH; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84886783173     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a45210     Document Type: Article

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