Heritage Discourse and the Desexualisation of Public Space: The "Historical Restorations" of Bloomsbury's Squares

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Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1081-1098

  Andersson, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heritage discourse; Homonormativity; London; Public space; Queer; Revanchism

Indexed keywords

HERITAGE CONSERVATION; HISTORIC BUILDING; LANDSCAPE; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN DESIGN;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84864944993     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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