Planning for sustainability: an assessment of recent metropolitan planning strategies and urban policy in Australia

Australian Planner

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 296-306

  Davidson, Kathryn ^a   Arman, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

metropolitan strategies; urban political ecology; urban sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908548429     PISSN: 07293682     EISSN: 21506841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2013.877508     Document Type: Article

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