Worlds in the city: Manhattan transfer and the ascendance of spectacular space

Planning Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 97-114

  King, Anthony D ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL GIGANTISM; GLOBALISATION; SYMBOLIC FUNCTION; URBAN FORM;

ASIA, (EAST); PACIFIC;

EID: 0029846667     PISSN: 02665433     EISSN: 14664518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02665439608559398     Document Type: Article

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