Decoding urban land governance: State reconstruction in contemporary chinese cities

Urban Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 559-581

  Jiang, Xu ^a   Yeh, Anthony ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICAL POWER; STATE ROLE; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TERRITORIALITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 60149095853     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098008100995     Document Type: Article

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