Mind the gap: The London underground map and users' representations of Urban space

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 09-35

  Vertesi, Janet ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cities; Imaging; Immutable mobile; Maps; Representing and intervening; Visual language; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149084005     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312707084153     Document Type: Article

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