Environmental Factors and Sense of Community in a Planned Town

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-143

  Plas, Jeanne M ^a   Lewis, Susan E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental variables; Planned towns; Qualitative methodology in community psychology; Sense of community

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000253502     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02511884     Document Type: Article

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