Interrogating urban experiments

Urban Geography

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1441-1450

  Caprotti, Federico ^a   Cowley, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

future cities; sustainable cities; Urban Experiments; urban futures

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA;

EID: 85003848664     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2016.1265870     Document Type: Article

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