Policy Responses to Urban Shrinkage: From Growth Thinking to Civic Engagement

European Planning Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1507-1523

  Hospers, Gert Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLICY STRATEGY; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84903518805     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2013.793655     Document Type: Article

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