Shades of green, fields of gold: Representations, discourse and the politics of golf in Singapore

Landscape Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 397-411

  Neo, Harvey ^a   Savage, Victor R ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Discourse; Golf; Landscape; Representation; Singapore

Indexed keywords

GOLF COURSE; LAND USE PLANNING; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0036819776     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0142639022000023952     Document Type: Article

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