Towards a moral ecology of the city: A new form of place-based identity and social action in Penang, Malaysia

International Development Planning Review

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-291

  Zabielskis, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL LEGACY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; URBAN SOCIETY; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; PENANG; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

EID: 66349085866     PISSN: 14746743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/idpr.30.3.5     Document Type: Article

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