Disaster and decentralization: American cities and the Cold War

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-148

  Farish, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; GEOPOLITICS; NUCLEAR WEAPON; POLITICAL HISTORY; SUBURBANIZATION; URBANIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LURIDAE;

EID: 0942302203     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1474474003eu267oa     Document Type: Article

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