If geography is anything, maybe it's planning's alter ego? Reflections on policy relevance in two disciplines concerned with place and space

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 566-584

  Phelps, Nicholas A ^a   Tewdwr Jones, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geography; Inter disciplinary relations; Planning; Policy relevance

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; PLANNING THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 51749111354     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00315.x     Document Type: Article

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