Locational disadvantage: An appropriate policy response to urban inequities?

Australian Geographer

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 132-135

  Fincher, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Localities; Planning; Social justice; Urban inequities

Indexed keywords

LOCATIONAL DISADVANTAGE; PLANNING PRACTICE; POLICY RESPONSE; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN INEQUALITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0026266683     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: 14653311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049189108703040     Document Type: Article

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