Strategizing sustainability: The case of River City, Gothenburg

Cities

Volumn 42, Issue PA, 2015, Pages 25-30

  Brorström, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

City conflicts; City visions; Ethnography; Politics; Strategies; Sustainability practice

Indexed keywords

PLANNING PRACTICE; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS;

GOTEBORG; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

EID: 84907611137     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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