Comparative metropolitan policy: Governing beyond local boundaries in the imagined metropolis

Comparative Metropolitan Policy: Governing Beyond Local Boundaries in the Imagined Metropolis

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-218

  Nelles, Jen ^a,b  

^a CEPS INTEAD   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 85071801014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203126745     Document Type: Book

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