Developers in the public interest? The role of urban development corporations in the Anglophone Caribbean

Geographical Journal

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-44

  Dodman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Antigua and Barbuda; Caribbean; Jamaica; Neoliberalisation; Neoliberalism; Trinidad and Tobago; Urban development corporations; Urban regeneration

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; LAND USE PLANNING; MODERNIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN RENEWAL;

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; LESSER ANTILLES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 39749154864     PISSN: 00167398     EISSN: 14754959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2008.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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