Thirty years of urban regeneration in Britain, Germany and France: The importance of context and path dependency

Progress in Planning

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-52

  Couch, Chris ^a   Sykes, Olivier ^a   Börstinghaus, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Stadt Flensburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Urban policy; Urban regeneration

Indexed keywords

POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBAN RENEWAL;

FRANCE; GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79151474592     PISSN: 03059006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.progress.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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