Geographies of abstraction, urban entrepreneurialism, and the production of new cultural spaces: The West Kowloon cultural district, Hong Kong

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1425-1442

  Raco, Mike ^a   Gilliam, Katherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstractions; Culture; Hong Kong; Regeneration; Urban entrepreneurialism

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; ENTREPRENEUR; POLICY MAKING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLITICS;

CHINA; HONG KONG; KOWLOON;

EID: 84864409354     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a44411     Document Type: Article

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