Planning and Social Media: Facebook for Planning at the Neighbourhood Scale

Planning Practice and Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 270-285

  Afzalan, Nader ^a   Evans Cowley, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL PLANNING; MEDIA ROLE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PLANNING PROCESS; SELF ORGANIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84938416008     PISSN: 02697459     EISSN: 13600583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2015.1052943     Document Type: Article

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