UK Urban regeneration policies in the early twenty-first century: Continuity or change?

Town Planning Review

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-150

  Shaw, Keith ^a   Robinson, Fred ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REGENERATION; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY STRATEGY; RENEWAL POLICY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBAN RENEWAL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77950395104     PISSN: 00410020     EISSN: 1478341X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2009.31     Document Type: Article

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