"Homed" in Arizona: The architecture of emergency shelters

Urban Geography

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 536-557

  Datta, Ayona ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Emergency shelter; Home; Homelessness; Material culture

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; HOMELESSNESS;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645300727     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.26.6.536     Document Type: Article

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