Pushing the urban frontier: Temporary uses of space, city marketing, and the creative city discourse in 2000S Berlin

Journal of Urban Affairs

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-152

  Colomb, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

EID: 84860342884     PISSN: 07352166     EISSN: 14679906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9906.2012.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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