How the city grows: Urban growth and challenges to sustainable development in Doha, Qatar

Sustainable Development: An Appraisal from the Gulf Region

Volumn 19, Issue , 2014, Pages 343-366

  Gardner, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

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