Suburbs without a city: Power and city-county consolidation

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 758-790

  Savitch, H V ^a   Vogel, Ronald K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

City county consolidation; Metropolitan governance; Regionalism and Louisville

Indexed keywords

INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS; POLITICAL REFORM; POWER RELATIONS; REGIONALISM; URBAN POLITICS;

KENTUCKY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3142606917     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087404264512     Document Type: Article

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