Market towns: Understanding and maintaining functionality

Town Planning Review

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 347-370

  Powe, Neil A ^a   Hart, Trevor ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANNING LEGISLATION; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; TOWN PLANNING;

EID: 49149114902     PISSN: 00410020     EISSN: 1478341X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.79.4.2     Document Type: Article

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