Technifying Public Space and Publicizing Infrastructures: Exploring New Urban Political Ecologies through the Square of General Vara del Rey

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1035-1052

  Domínguez Rubio, Fernando ^a   Fogué, Uriel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Architectural design; Environmental technologies; Infrastructures; Political ecology; Public space; Spain; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC SPACE; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS;

SPAIN;

EID: 84876886345     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12052     Document Type: Article

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