Sustainable Urban Development as Consensual Practice: Post-Politics in Freiburg, Germany

Regional Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 971-982

  Mössner, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consensual urban politics; Freiburg; Post politics; Sustainable urban development

Indexed keywords

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; FREIBURG IM BREISGAU; GERMANY;

EID: 84949223445     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2015.1102875     Document Type: Article

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