Place quality and urban competitiveness symbiosis? A position paper

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 4-21

  Esmaeilpoorarabi, Niusha ^a   Yigitcanlar, Tan ^a   Guaralda, Mirko ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

KBUD; Knowledge industry; Knowledge worker; Knowledge based urban development; QoL; QoP; Quality of life; Quality of place; Urban competitiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962052472     PISSN: 20404468     EISSN: 20404476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJKBD.2016.075444     Document Type: Article

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