The cultural politics of local economic development: meaning-making, place-making, and the urban policy process

2002/08/01 by Eugene McCann, Eugene J McCann · 188 citations
Social Sciences · #Cultural Industries and Urban Development #Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research #Elite #Environmental ethics #Epistemology #Law #Meaning (existential) #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Problematization #Rhetorical question #Sociology #Urban Planning and Governance #Vision

paper · doi:10.1016/s0016-7185(02)00007-6

published in Geoforum 33(3), 385-398 (Elsevier BV)

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