Casino boom and local politics: The city of Macao

Cities

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 67-73

  Sheng, Li ^a   Tsui, Yanming ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR TOURISM STUDIES   (Macao)

^b MACAO POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (Macao)

Author keywords

Gaming development strategy; Interest groups; Macao; Side effects; Urban development; Urban impacts

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; GAMBLING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN POLITICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MACAU;

EID: 62149105905     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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