Urban green assemblages: An ANT view on sustainable city building projects

Science and Technology Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-24

  Blok, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Assemblage urbanism; Sustainable city building

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881060918     PISSN: 22434690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.23987/sts.55306     Document Type: Article

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