Birmingham's Eastside story: Making steps towards sustainability?

Local Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 525-542

  Porter, Libby ^a   Hunt, Dexter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC REGENERATION; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN RENEWAL;

BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 23044443422     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549830500203337     Document Type: Article

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