Civic initiatives in urban development: Self-governance versus self-organisation in planning practice

Town Planning Review

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 339-361

  Rauws, Ward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cohousing; Complexity sciences; Governance; Intent; Organic area development; Spontaneity; The netherlands

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PLANNING PRACTICE; SELF GOVERNMENT; SELF ORGANIZATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

EID: 84971508981     PISSN: 00410020     EISSN: 1478341X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2016.23     Document Type: Article

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