Mind the gap? The persistence of pathological discourses in Urban regeneration policy

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-240

  Matthews, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Path dependency; Policy analysis; Regeneration; Scotland

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE; ECONOMIC REGENERATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; POLICY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; URBAN POLICY; URBAN RENEWAL;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77955145924     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: 16512278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036090903326452     Document Type: Article

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