Negotiating Green Space with Landed Interests: The Urban Political Ecology of Greenway in the Pearl River Delta, China

Antipode

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 891-909

  Chung, Calvin King Lam ^a   Zhang, Fangzhu ^a   Wu, Fulong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; green space; greenway; land development; urban political ecology; urban sustainability

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; GREENSPACE; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 85041172831     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12384     Document Type: Article

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