The new urban world: Challenges and policy

Applied Geography

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-3

  Kourtit, Karima ^a,b   Nijkamp, Peter ^b   Reid, Neil ^c  

^a Faculty of Economics and Business Administration   (Netherlands)

^b VU University   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenges; Cities; Policies; The future; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84896058295     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.01.007     Document Type: Article

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