Approaching the notion of place by contrast

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2012, 2012, Pages 31-50

  Winter, Stephan ^a   Freksa, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary; Context; Contrast; Environment; Indeterminacy; Location; Objects; Place

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879230011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1948660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5311/JOSIS.2012.5.90     Document Type: Article

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