Bidding for 'global city' status: A prescription for sustaining Cairo's financial health

Cities

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-134

  el Khishin, Khaled ^a  

^a Zagazig University ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

Africa; Comparative resarch; Urban deverlopment

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; POLICY STRATEGY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; WORLD CITY;

CAIRO; EGYPT;

EID: 0037375385     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-2751(02)00120-8     Document Type: Article

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