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The Role of Secondary Cities in Rapidly Industrializing Countries:The Example of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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  1. The University of Akron, Ohio, USA

    Ashok K. Dutt  & Allen G. Noble  & 

  2. Ball State University, Indiana, USA

    G. Venugopal

  3. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

    S. Subbiah

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Williams, J.F. (2004). The Role of Secondary Cities in Rapidly Industrializing Countries:The Example of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In: Dutt, A.K., Noble, A.G., Venugopal, G., Subbiah, S. (eds) Challenges to Asian Urbanization in the 21st Century. The GeoJournal Library, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2531-9_14

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