Art and Crime (and Other Things Besides ...): Conceptualising Graffiti in the City

Geography Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 128-143

  Mcauliffe, Cameron ^a   Iveson, Kurt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; COMPLEX TERRAIN; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL TRADITION; LITERATURE REVIEW;

EID: 79952094989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2011.00414.x     Document Type: Review

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