Urban and suburban retail development in Albania's capital after socialism

Land Use Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 836-845

  Pojani, Dorina ^a  

^a EPOKA UNIVERSITY   (Albania)

Author keywords

Albania; Center city densification; Commercial sprawl; Post communist retail development; Shopping malls; Tirana

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKET; COMMERCIALIZATION; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; POST-COMMUNISM; RETAILING; SHOPPING ACTIVITY; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY;

ALBANIA; TIRANA;

EID: 79957924856     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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