Cross-Border Differences and Unfamiliarity: Shopping Mobility in the Dutch-German Rhine-Waal Euroregion

European Planning Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-23

  Spierings, Bas ^a   van der Velde, Martin ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; CULTURAL IDENTITY; MOBILITY; NATIONAL IDENTITY; PERCEPTION; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL POLICY; SHOPPING ACTIVITY;

GERMANY; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84871068693     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.716236     Document Type: Article

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