Deconstructing twinned towers: Lisbon's Expo '98 and the occluded geographies of discovery

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 865-883

  Power, Marcus ^a   Sidaway, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Colonial cities; Discoveries; Expo '98; Lisbon; Portugal; Postcolonialism

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; POST-COLONIALISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; LISBON; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 30744474002     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360500353228     Document Type: Article

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