The ordinary city trap

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2290-2304

  Smith, Richard G ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global city; Ordinary cities; Postcolonial urbanisms; World city

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; MARXISM; NEOLIBERALISM; POST-COLONIALISM; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN HISTORY; WORLD CITY;

EID: 84886803795     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a45516     Document Type: Article

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