Contextualising regional identity and imagination on the construction of polycentric urban regions: The cases of the Ruhr area and the Basque country

Urban Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 747-767

  Van Houtum, H ^a   Legendijk, A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

BASQUE REGION; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA; RUHR; SPAIN;

EID: 0035070063     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980120035321     Document Type: Article

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