Singapore's Little India: A tourist attraction as a contested landscape

Urban Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 343-366

  Chang, T C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; SENSE OF PLACE; TOURIST ATTRACTION; URBAN AREA;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0034015025     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098002221     Document Type: Article

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