The slum pastoral: Helicopter visuality and Koolhaas's Lagos

Space and Culture

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 256-269

  Hecker, Tim ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

aerial visuality; Koolhaas; Lagos; urbanism; visual studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955216046     PISSN: 12063312     EISSN: 15528308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1206331210365257     Document Type: Review

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