“No place for wilderness”: Urban parks and the assembling of neoliberal urban environmental governance

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 19, Issue , 2016, Pages 278-284

  Gabriel, Nathaniel ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Governance; Neoliberalism; Parks; Philadelphia; Urban political ecology

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; GREENSPACE; INFRASTRUCTURE; NEOLIBERALISM; PARK MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY; WILDERNESS AREA;

PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959494020     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2016.02.006     Document Type: Article

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