Blank Space: Exploring the Sublime Qualities of Urban Wilderness at the Former Fishing Harbour in Tallinn, Estonia

Landscape Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 267-286

  Unt, Anna Liisa ^a   Travlou, Penny ^b   Bell, Simon ^a,b  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estonia; the sublime; unregulated space; urban derelict places; waterfront regeneration

Indexed keywords

URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT; WILDERNESS AREA;

ESTONIA; TALLINN;

EID: 84904506413     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2012.742046     Document Type: Article

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