Old habits die hard? Neighbourhood participation in post-WWII neighbourhoods in Slovenia and the Netherlands

Cities

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 148-157

  Filipovič Hrast, Maša ^a   Dekker, Karien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Civic participation; International comparative studies; Post war housing estates; Social capital

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POST-WAR; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

BENELUX; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349146290     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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