Producing and experiencing Harlow: Neighbourhood units and narratives of New Town life 1947-53

Planning Perspectives

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-174

  Llewellyn, Mark ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; NEIGHBORHOOD; NEW TOWN; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN HISTORY;

ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; EURASIA; EUROPE; HARLOW; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3042789528     PISSN: 02665433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0266543042000192457     Document Type: Article

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