Houses of Experiment: Modern Housing and the Will to Laboratorization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 450-470

  Strebel, Ignaz ^a   Jacobs, Jane M ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b YALE NUS COLLEGE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Britain; Building science; Experiment; Housing science; Laboratory; Modern housing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894519636     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12079     Document Type: Article

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