Contesting the modern city: Reconstruction and everyday life in post-war Coventry

Planning Perspectives

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 377-397

  Hubbard, Phil ^a   Faire, Lucy ^a   Lilley, Keith ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANNING HISTORY; POST-WAR; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN RENEWAL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0142246884     PISSN: 02665433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0266543032000117523     Document Type: Article

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