Architecture as branding: Mega project developments in Beijing

Built Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 517-531

  Ren, Xuefei ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CAPITAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 66149109636     PISSN: 02637960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2148/benv.34.4.517     Document Type: Article

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