Symptomatic acts, experimental embodiments: Theatres of scientific protest in interwar Germany

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1812-1837

  Vasudevan, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

BERLIN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 34548297993     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38295     Document Type: Article

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