Global Urban Frontiers through Policy Transfer? Unpacking Seoul's Creative City Programmes

Urban Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 2817-2837

  Lee, Yong Sook ^a   Hwang, Eun Jung ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CHANGE; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; TOURISM; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLICY;

SEOUL [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84866159088     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098012452456     Document Type: Article

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