Planning the post-communist city: Experiences from Sofia

International Planning Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 219-240

  Hirt, Sonia A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANNING PROCESS; POST-COMMUNISM; URBAN PLANNING;

BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOFIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 30644457623     PISSN: 13563475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563470500378572     Document Type: Article

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