Retrofitting the Australian suburbs for sustainability

Steering Sustainability in an Urbanizing World: Policy, Practice and Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 215-225

  Dalton, Tony ^d   Horne, Ralph ^a   Hafkamp, Wim ^b,c   Lee, Margaret ^d  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Netherlands Institute for City Innovation Studies   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NONE

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