Infrastructures of the imagined island: Software, mobilities, and the architecture of Caribbean paradise

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1386-1403

  Sheller, Mimi ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCLAVE; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; METROPOLITAN AREA; PUBLIC SPACE; SOFTWARE; TERRAIN; TERRITORIAL PLANNING; URBAN PLANNING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 67749107651     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a41248     Document Type: Article

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