From City-region Concept to Boundaries for Governance: The English Case

Urban Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2426-2443

  Coombes, Mike ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLICY ANALYSIS; URBAN REGION;

EID: 84908576888     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098013493482     Document Type: Article

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