Market towns: Investigating the service role through visitor surveys

Planning Practice and Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-50

  Powe, Neil ^a   Shaw, Tim ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; RURAL AREA; SERVICE PROVISION; SMALL TOWN;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0344036962     PISSN: 02697459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269745032000132628     Document Type: Article

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