Architecture, economic imaginaries and urban politics: The office tower as socially classifying device

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 336-359

  Grubbauer, Monika ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Architecture; Cultural political economy; Economic imaginaries; Office tower; Urban development; Vienna

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CULTURAL RELATIONS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; MARKETING; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; POLITICAL ECONOMY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN POLICY; URBAN POLITICS;

AUSTRIA; VIENNA;

EID: 84890877477     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12110     Document Type: Article

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