Inequality and politics in the creative city-region: Questions of livability and state strategy

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 188-196

  McCann, Eugene J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLICY MAKING; REGIONALISM; URBAN POLITICS;

AUSTIN; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947515376     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00713.x     Document Type: Article

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