Becoming a creative city: The entrepreneurial mayor, network politics and the promise of an urban renaissance

Urban Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1037-1057

  Ponzini, Davide ^a   Rossi, Ugo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REGENERATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; POLICY STRATEGY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN RENEWAL;

BALTIMORE; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950676734     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098009353073     Document Type: Article

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