Geographies of everywhere and nowhere: Place-(un)making in a world city

International Development Planning Review

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 227-247

  Chang, T C ^a   Huang, Shirlena ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; GLOBALIZATION; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN PLANNING; WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT; WORLD CITY;

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

EID: 66349106768     PISSN: 14746743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/idpr.30.3.3     Document Type: Article

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