Economic transformations of gay urban spaces: Revisiting collins' evolutionary gay district model

Australian Geographer

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-269

  Ruting, Brad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gay; Oxford Street; Sexuality; Social change; Sydney; Urban economics

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; HOMOSEXUALITY; INNER CITY AREA; MODELING; SOCIAL CHANGE; URBAN SOCIETY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

EID: 51249101259     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: 14653311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049180802270465     Document Type: Article

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