Getting Out of Place: The Mobile Creative Class Takes on the Local. A UK Perspective on the Creative Class

GeoJournal Library

Volumn 98, Issue , 2009, Pages 121-134

  Oakley, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creative Class; Creative Industry; Cultural Policy; Urban Policy; World City

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103729685     PISSN: 09245499     EISSN: 22150072     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9949-6_8     Document Type: Chapter

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