The planners' city: The construction of a town planning perception of Colombo

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-73

  Perera, Nihal ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; PERCEPTION; TOWN PLANNING;

ASIA; COLOMBO; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA; WESTERN PROVINCE [SRI LANKA];

EID: 39649096046     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3987     Document Type: Article

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