Is high-rise housing innovative? Developers' contradictory narratives of high-rise housing in Melbourne

Urban Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 631-649

  Fincher, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 34247581769     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601131894     Document Type: Article

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