Urban conservation and spatial transformation: Preserving the fragments or maintaining the ‘spatial spirit’

Urban Design International

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 221-231

  Karimi, Kayvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modernisation; Organic city; Physical transformation; Spatial analysis; Urban conservation; Urban elements

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; HISTORIC BUILDING; URBAN PLANNING;

IRAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034468189     PISSN: 13575317     EISSN: 14684519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.udi.9000012     Document Type: Article

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