Gated communities as packaged fantasies: A meeting of the local and the global and the standardisation of taste in urban Sri Lanka

Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 239-264

  Perera, Sasanka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

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EID: 84905626871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203085332     Document Type: Chapter

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