Utopian visions and real estate dreams: The eco-city past, present and future

Geography Compass

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 137-149

  Rapoport, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANNING PRACTICE; PLANNING THEORY; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84893461296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12113     Document Type: Article

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