Love thy neighbourhood - Rethinking the politics of scale and Walsall's struggle for neighbourhood democracy

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 277-300

  Whitehead, Mark ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; EMPOWERMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; URBAN POLITICS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037300353     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a35127     Document Type: Article

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