Capitalising on Position: Policies for Competitive Capital and non-Capital Cities

Place-making and Policies for Competitive Cities

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 59-76

  Brown, Julie ^a   Redmond, Declan ^b   Miquel, Marc Pradel I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Centralisation; Governance; Historical pathways; Political systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886192313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118554579.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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