New visions for suburbia: Reassessing aesthetics and place-making in modernism, imageability and New Urbanism

Journal of Urban Design

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 415-438

  Ann, Forsyth ^a   Katherine, Crewe ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTHETICS; MODERNIZATION; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

CALIFORNIA; DORSET [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; POUNDBURY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350749197     PISSN: 13574809     EISSN: 14699664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13574800903265470     Document Type: Article

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