Dementia-friendly cities: Designing intelligible neighbourhoods for life

Journal of Urban Design

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-101

  Mitchell, Lynne ^a   Burton, Elizabeth ^a   Raman, Shibu ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENTAL HEALTH; NEIGHBORHOOD; PERCEPTION; URBAN DESIGN;

EID: 1942501221     PISSN: 13574809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1357480042000187721     Document Type: Article

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