On their road to sustainability?: The challenge of sustainable mobility in urban planning and development in two Scandinavian capital regions

Town Planning Review

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 285-315

  Næss, Petter ^a   Strand, Arvid ^b   Næss, Teresa ^a   Nicolaisen, Morten ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; LAND USE PLANNING; METROPOLITAN AREA; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

COPENHAGEN [(CTY) HOVEDSTADEN]; DENMARK; HOVEDSTADEN; NORWAY; OSLO [NORWAY];

EID: 79959329781     PISSN: 00410020     EISSN: 1478341X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2011.18     Document Type: Review

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