Privatized suburbia: The planning implications of private roads

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 740-754

  Grant, Jill ^a   Curran, Andrew ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST; PRIVATIZATION; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; ROAD; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; SPATIAL PLANNING; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; URBANIZATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34547169471     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b32136     Document Type: Article

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