"A Chronicle of a Death Foretold": Urban Expansion and Land Consumption in Rome, Italy

European Planning Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1176-1188

  Salvati, Luca ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBAN POPULATION;

ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME;

EID: 84879596281     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.722941     Document Type: Article

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