The Highest and Best Use? Urban Industrial Land and Job Creation

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 300-313

  Chapple, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

business expansion; industrial land use; job creation

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; RELOCATION; URBAN AREA; ZONING POLICY;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911952401     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: 15523543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891242413517134     Document Type: Article

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