Engaging with marginalised groups in public open space research: The potential of collaboration and combined methods

Planning Theory and Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-46

  Finney, Nissa ^b   Rishbeth, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ethics; Parks; Participation; Refugees; Sheffield; Visual

Indexed keywords

GREENSPACE; REFUGEE; URBAN PLANNING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SHEFFIELD [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644821779     PISSN: 14649357     EISSN: 1470000X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649350500497406     Document Type: Article

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