Thrashing downtown: Play as resistance to the spatial and representational regulation of Los Angeles

Cities

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-158

  Flusty, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bunker Hill; Los Angeles; Street display; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034009326     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-2751(00)00009-3     Document Type: Article

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