Office development and post-communist city formation: The case of Prague

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Volumn 92, Issue , 2007, Pages 117-145

  Sýkora, Luděk ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

City Center; Office Building; Property Market; Real Estate Market; Vacancy Rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103712708     PISSN: 09245499     EISSN: 22150072     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6053-3_7     Document Type: Chapter

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