Mosquitoes in the mix: How transferable is creative city thinking?

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-85

  Luckman, Susan ^a   Gibson, Chris ^b   Lea, Tess ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Creative city; Darwin; Indigenous Aboriginalpeoples; Neoliberalism; Population churn; Post colonial

Indexed keywords

INDIGENOUS POPULATION; NEOLIBERALISM; PLANNING PROCESS; POST-COLONIALISM; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 61549122724     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2008.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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