Building better communities: Social life on London's cottage council estates, 1919-1939

Journal of Historical Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 376-395

  Bayliss, Darrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN SOCIETY;

ENGLAND (LONDON); UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0344704140     PISSN: 03057488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhge.2002.0463     Document Type: Article

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