Collapsing the global and the local through interscalar strategies: A glurbanization perspective

Planning Theory

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-27

  Matusitz, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

City; Globalization; Glurbanization; Interscalar; Scaling; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MODEL TEST; SCALE EFFECT; URBAN AREA; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 75649101769     PISSN: 14730952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473095209342608     Document Type: Article

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