Urban reconstruction and autocratic regimes: Ceausescu’s bucharest in its historic context

Planning Perspectives

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-109

  De Cavalcanti, Maria Betânia Uchôa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCRACY; CEAUSESU,N.; HISTORICAL STUDY; PLANNING HISTORY; PLANNING PROCESS; STATE CONTROL; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN RECONSTRUCTION;

ROMANIA, BUCHAREST;

EID: 0030831332     PISSN: 02665433     EISSN: 14664518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026654397364780     Document Type: Article

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