From high-rise projects to suburban estates: Public tenants and the globalised discourse of deconcentration

Cities

Volumn 35, Issue , 2013, Pages 365-372

  Darcy, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Housing; Neighbourhood effects; Participatory research; Poverty de concentration

Indexed keywords

GENTRIFICATION; HOUSING MARKET; HOUSING POLICY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING;

AUSTRALIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885329247     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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