The spatial accommodation practice of the bureaucracy of the Commonwealth of Australia and the production of Canberra as national capital space: A dialectical and prosaic history

Political Geography

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-56

  Beer, Chris ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accommodation practice; Canberra; Centrality; Commonwealth of Australia; National capital cities; Prosaic statisation; Public bureaucracies; Spatial histories

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM; BUREAUCRACY; CAPITAL CITY; MUSEUM; NATION STATE; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; CANBERRA;

EID: 38149142683     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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