Overcoming social traps: A key to creating child friendly cities

Creating Child Friendly Cities: Reinstating Kids in the City

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 121-135

  Tranter, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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EID: 84905128532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203087176     Document Type: Chapter

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