Urban public spaces as representations of culture: The Plaza in Costa Rica

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-33

  Low, Setha M ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Public Space Research Group   (United States)

^e NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL REPRESENTATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; PUBLIC SPACE; SPATIAL SYMBOLISM;

COSTA RICA, SAN JOSE;

EID: 0031447690     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001391659702900101     Document Type: Article

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