Comparisons: Colonial or cosmopolitan?

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-140

  Robinson, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cities; Comparisons; Methodologies; Postcolonial

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; METHODOLOGY;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 79961188201     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2011.00423.x     Document Type: Article

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