Home alone: The individualization of young, urban Japanese singles

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2836-2854

  Ronald, Richard ^a   Hirayama, Yosuke ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY STRUCTURE; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; INDIVIDUALISM; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC SPACE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN SOCIETY; YOUNG POPULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 71049136048     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a41119     Document Type: Article

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