The Four Urban Governance Problem Types Suitable for Crowdsourcing Citizen Participation

Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance: Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 50-68

  Brabham, Daren C ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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