On the contested nature of place: 'Figuera's Well', 'The Hole of Shame' and the ideological struggle over public space in Barcelona

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-244

  Di Masso, Andrés ^a   Dixon, John ^b   Pol, Enric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barcelona; Contestation; Ideology; Place meanings; Public space; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052095102     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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