Resilience planning, economic change and the politics of post-recession development in London and Hong Kong

Urban Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1065-1087

  Raco, Mike ^a   Street, Emma ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; MITIGATION; NEOLIBERALISM; RECOVERY PLAN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY;

CHINA; ENGLAND; HONG KONG; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84857948354     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098011415716     Document Type: Article

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