Embracing Uncertainty Without Abandoning Planning: Exploring an Adaptive Planning Approach for Guiding Urban Transformations

DISP

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 32-45

  Rauws, Ward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CAPACITY BUILDING; INNER CITY AREA; SPATIAL PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 85017564255     PISSN: 02513625     EISSN: 21668604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2017.1316539     Document Type: Article

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