Visualizing the corrosive community: Looting in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Space and Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-73

  Miller, DeMond Shondell ^a  

^a ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrosive community; Distrust; Hurricane Katrina; Looting; New Orleans

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249157253     PISSN: 12063312     EISSN: 15528308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1206331205283762     Document Type: Short Survey

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