Urban brownfields redevelopment in Canada: The role of local government

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 392-407

  De Sousa, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL GOVERNMENT; REDEVELOPMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY; URBAN POLITICS;

CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748600707     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2006.00148.x     Document Type: Article

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