Learning from the Past? A Review of Approaches to Spatial Targeting in Urban Policy

Planning Theory and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 331-348

  Rae, Alasdair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

intervention; metropolitan; regeneration; spatial targeting; Urban policy

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; METROPOLITAN AREA; SPATIAL PLANNING; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN POLICY;

EID: 84859258233     PISSN: 14649357     EISSN: 1470000X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2011.617492     Document Type: Review

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