Exploring resident (non-)participation in the UK new deal for communities regeneration programme

Urban Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 591-606

  Mathers, Jonathan ^a   Parry, Jayne ^a   Jones, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; DECISION MAKING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; REGENERATION; SOCIAL POLICY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39349085013     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098007087336     Document Type: Article

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