Metropolitics in motion

Urban Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 188-217

  Addie, Jean Paul D ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

City regions; Comparative urbanism; Governance; Transportation; Urban restructuring

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL CRISIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; METROPOLITAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS; URBAN TRANSPORT; URBANIZATION;

CANADA; CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878131666     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2013.778651     Document Type: Article

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