The disintegration of a socialist exemplar: Discourses on urban disorder in Alexanderplatz, Berlin

Space and Culture

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 207-230

  Weszkalnys, Gisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Berlin; Disorder; Postsocialism; Public space; The social; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049358877     PISSN: 12063312     EISSN: 15528308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1206331206298552     Document Type: Review

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