Prosperity along Australia's eastern seaboard: Sydney and the geopolitics of urban and economic change

Australian Geographer

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 241-261

  O'Neill, Phillip ^a   McGuirk, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accumulation strategy; Demographic change; Financialisation; Prosperity; Redistribution; Regional and rural Australia; Sydney

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; REGIONAL ECONOMY; RURAL ECONOMY; URBAN ECONOMY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036863132     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0004918022000028671     Document Type: Article

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