Planning Healthy, Liveable and Sustainable Cities: How Can Indicators Inform Policy?

Urban Policy and Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 131-144

  Lowe, Melanie ^a   Whitzman, Carolyn ^b   Badland, Hannah ^a   Davern, Melanie ^a   Aye, Lu ^c   Hes, Dominique ^b   Butterworth, Iain ^d   Giles Corti, Billie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c The University of Melbourne   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

indicators; integrated planning; Liveability; Melbourne; social determinants of health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930541511     PISSN: 08111146     EISSN: 14767244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08111146.2014.1002606     Document Type: Article

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