Getting off the ground: On the politics of urban verticality

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-92

  Graham, Stephen ^a   Hewitt, Lucy ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cities; Google Earth; politics; secession; subterranean; surveillance; verticality

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; INTERNET; MAPPING METHOD; RESEARCH WORK; URBAN AREA; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84872665343     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132512443147     Document Type: Article

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