The quality of urban environments: Mapping variation in access to community resources

Urban Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 161-177

  Witten, Karen ^a   Exeter, Daniel ^b   Field, Adrian ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; GIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN SERVICE;

EID: 0037258349     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980220080221     Document Type: Article

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