Analysis of a city-region from the knowledge perspective: Tampere, Finland

VINE

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 445-466

  Yigitcanlar, Tan ^a   Lönnqvist, Antti ^b   Salonius, Henna ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

City region; Finland; Knowledge based urban development; Regional development; Tampere

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; REGIONAL PLANNING; URBAN GROWTH;

CITY-REGION; FINLAND; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; TAMPERE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 84908236523     PISSN: 03055728     EISSN: 14741032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/VINE-09-2013-0056     Document Type: Article

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