Wheels of Fame and Fortune: The Travels of the Singapore Flyer

Urban Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 2839-2852

  Yap, Erica X Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ARCHITECTURE; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84866182865     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098012452462     Document Type: Article

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