Municipal service provision choices within a metropolitan area

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 492-519

  Joassart Marcelli, Pascale ^a,b   Musso, Juliet ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiscal disparity; Privatization; Public services; Subcontracting

Indexed keywords

METROPOLITAN AREA; PLANNING PROCESS; SERVICE PROVISION; SUBCONTRACTING; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 14744282980     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087404272305     Document Type: Article

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