Toward Ecological Cities: Adapting to the 21st Century Metropolis

Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 10-27

  Platt, Rutherford H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; CITY; COMMUNITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; HIGHWAY; LAND USE; LAW; NATURAL SCIENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; URBAN AREA;

EID: 2542558888     PISSN: 00139157     EISSN: 19399154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00139150409604388     Document Type: Article

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