Futures studies' backcasting method used for strategic sustainable city planning

Futures

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 707-714

  Phdungsilp, Aumnad ^a  

^a DHURAKIJ PUNDIT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECT; PLANNING METHOD; PLANNING PROCESS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

GOTEBORG; SWEDEN; THAILAND; VASTRA GOTALAND;

EID: 79960394744     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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