"Sometimes a community and sometimes a battlefield": From the comedic public sphere to the commons of Speakers' Corner

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 753-775

  Cooper, Davina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC ATTITUDE; SENSE OF PLACE;

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

EID: 33750948786     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d1004     Document Type: Article

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