Fly buy cities: Some planning aspects of airport privatisation in Australia

Urban Policy and Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 491-508

  Freestone, Robert ^a   Williams, Peter ^a   Bowden, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airports; Commonwealth government; Neo liberalism; Privatisation; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650466395     PISSN: 08111146     EISSN: 14767244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08111140601035267     Document Type: Article

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