The metropolitan region: from concepts to indicators of urban sustainability

Journal of Urbanism

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-23

  Banai, Reza ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

building blocks; metropolitan region; multi scale indicators of urban sustainability; regionalism; urban sustainability; urbanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878628734     PISSN: 17549175     EISSN: 17549183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2012.668427     Document Type: Article

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