Place identity: The visual image of Saudi Arabian cities

Habitat International

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-164

  Eben Saleh, Mohammed Abdullah ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Architectural artefacts; Conservation; Place identity; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; SENSE OF PLACE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; VISUAL IMAGE;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0031843488     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0197-3975(97)00033-7     Document Type: Article

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