Belfast without sight: Exploring geographies of blindness

Irish Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 34-46

  Kitchin, Robert M ^a   Jacobson, R Daniel ^b   Golledge, Reginald G ^b   Blades, Mark ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Accessibility; Spatial behaviour; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COPING STRATEGY; PERCEPTION; SPATIAL COGNITION;

BELFAST; NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032439693     PISSN: 00750778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00750779809478630     Document Type: Article

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