More than food and folk music? Geographical perspectives on European town twinning

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1281-1304

  Grosspietsch, Julia ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC RELATIONS; GLOBALIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN SOCIETY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 66149131493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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