'Mind that child': Childhood, traffic and walking in automobilized space

Car Troubles: Critical Studies of Automobility and Auto-Mobility

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 127-143

  Collins, Damian ^a   Bean, Catherine ^b   Kearns, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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