Introduction: Mobile city Singapore

Mobilities

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 167-175

  Oswin, Natalie ^a   Yeoh, Brenda S A ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URBAN AREA;

SINGAPORE [SINGAPORE (NTN)]; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 77951602871     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101003665002     Document Type: Article

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