A comparative perspective on urban transport and emerging environmental problems in middle-income cities

Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 206-234

  Kenworthy, Jeff ^a   Townsend, Craig ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

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EID: 35948937084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849772471     Document Type: Chapter

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