Importing problems: The impact of a housing ordinance on Colombo, Sri Lanka

Arab World Geographer

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 61-76

  Perera, Nihal ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonial urbanism; Orientalism; Representation; Said; Urban perceptions; Urban problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651503096     PISSN: 14806800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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