Belfast: Rebranding the ‘Renaissance City’: From ‘the Troubles’ to Titanic Quarter®

Urban Design and the British Urban Renaissance

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 305-321

  Neill, William J V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84879928849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203869208-32     Document Type: Chapter

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