The unsustainable city

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 365-374

  Berger, Matthias ^a,b  

^a FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cities; Land use; Perception; Sustainable development; Unsustainability; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894099896     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6010365     Document Type: Note

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