Cultural sources of variations in US urban sustainability attributes

Cities

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 257-267

  Budd, William ^a   Lovrich Jr , Nicholas ^a   Pierce, John C ^b,c   Chamberlain, Barbara ^d  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

creativity; political culture; social capital; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; ETHNOPOLITICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51549113347     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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