Living the green city: Freiburg's Solarsiedlung between narratives and practices of sustainable urban development

Local Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 644-659

  Freytag, Tim ^a   Gössling, Stefan ^b,c   Mössner, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

eco city; Freiburg; green city; narratives and practices; sustainable urban development

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; NEIGHBORHOOD; NEOLIBERALISM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; FREIBURG IM BREISGAU; GERMANY;

EID: 84904392348     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2013.868872     Document Type: Article

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