Local diversity and creative economic activity in Canadian city-regions

Beyond Territory: Dynamic Geographies of Knowledge Creation, Diffusion, and Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 46-63

  Spencer, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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