The Buffalo commons: Metaphor as method

Geographical Review

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 491-510

  Popper, Deborah E ^a   Popper, Frank J ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffalo Commons; Geographical imagination; Great Plains; Regional geography; Regional metaphor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039374730     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/216099     Document Type: Article

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