Place mapping with teenagers: Locating their territories and documenting their experience of the public realm

Children's Geographies

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-326

  Travlou, Penny ^a   Owens, Patsy Eubanks ^b   Thompson, Catharine Ward ^a   Maxwell, Lorraine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Place mapping; Public space; Research methods; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951192975     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733280802184039     Document Type: Article

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