Sustainable urban external service function development for building the international megalopolis in the Pearl River Delta, China

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 13029-13054

  Wang, Meng ^a,b,c   Kuang, Yaoqiu ^a,b   Huang, Ningsheng ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Employment structure; External service functions; Urban agglomeration; Urban economic flow

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; LOCATION THEORY; METROPOLITAN AREA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN SERVICE; AGGLOMERATION; EMPLOYMENT; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

CHINA; DONGGUAN; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU; SHENZHEN; ZHUHAI; ZHUJIANG DELTA; FOSHAN;

EID: 84949226104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su71013029     Document Type: Article

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