The pedagogy of the American city: Revisiting the concepts of place, non-place, and placelessness

Urban Design International

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 103-117

  Arefi, Mahyar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Non place; Place; Placelessness; Reading the American city

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; PLANNING METHOD; SENSE OF PLACE; URBAN DESIGN;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11244258365     PISSN: 13575317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.udi.9000121     Document Type: Article

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