The ghost in the city and a landscape of life: A reading of difference in Shirow and Oshii's Ghost in the Shell

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-106

  Curti, Giorgio Hadi ^a,b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPLORATION; LANDSCAPE; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 40949083126     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d458t     Document Type: Article

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