Urban 'utopias': The Disney stigma and discourses of 'false modernity'

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2445-2462

  Koch, Natalie ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital city; Kazakhstan; Modernity; Textual analysis; Utopia

Indexed keywords

MODERNITY; POLITICAL BORDER; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SOCIETY;

KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 84868031194     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a44647     Document Type: Article

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