The modern touch: Interior design and modernisation in post-independence Singapore

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 572-595

  Jacobs, Jane M ^a   Cairns, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING MARKET; HOUSING PROVISION; MODERNIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 42449138669     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a39123     Document Type: Article

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