Imagining the carbon neutral city: The (post)politics of time and space.
Putting climate neutrality on the urban agenda inevitably requires a re-imagination and delineation of the boundaries of the city, both at the geographical level, with regard to its inscription in history and concerning the social groups it is composed of. Such an exercise of (re-)imagination or rep...
| Publicado en: | Environment & Planning A Vol. 49; no. 8; pp. 1762 - 1779 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2017
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