"Dreams so big only the sea can hold them": Man-made islands as anxious spaces, cultural icons, and travelling visions

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2086-2104

  Jackson, Mark ^a   della Dora, Veronica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ISLAND; CAPITALISM; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; URBAN ECONOMY;

ARABIAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BLACK SEA; CARIBBEAN SEA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; NORTH SEA; PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 70350539646     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a41237     Document Type: Article

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