Visual Impairment in the City: Young People's Social Strategies for Independent Mobility

Urban Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 574-586

  Worth, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILITY; RESEARCH WORK; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SOCIETY;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84872845219     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098012468898     Document Type: Article

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