Community and Nostalgia in Urban Revitalisation: A critique of urban village and creative class strategies as remedies for social 'problems'

Australian Geographer

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 335-354

  Barnes, Kendall ^a   Waitt, Gordon ^a   Gill, Nicholas ^a   Gibson, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Creative city; Discourse analysis; Social exclusion; Urban village; Wollongong

Indexed keywords

CRIME; DRUGS TRADE; MARGINALIZATION; PROSTITUTION; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN RENEWAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; WOLLONGONG;

EID: 33750295519     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: 14653311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049180600954773     Document Type: Article

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