Collaborative Visioning or Urban Planning as Therapy? The Politics of Public-Private Policy Making

Professional Geographer

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 207-218

  McCann, Eugene J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative planning; Urban policy making; Urban politics; Visioning

Indexed keywords

PLANNING PROCESS; POLICY MAKING; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034997302     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00280     Document Type: Article

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