Children's neighbourhoods, social centres to 'terra incognita'

Children's Geographies

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-176

  Freeman, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Children; Neighbourhoods; New Zealand; Social capital; Social cohesion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957885127     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733281003691418     Document Type: Article

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