Playing in industrial ruins: Interrogating teleological understandings of play in spaces of material alterity and low surveillance

Urban Wildscapes

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 65-79

  Edensor, Tim ^a   Evans, Bethan ^b   Holloway, Julian ^a   Millington, Steve ^a   Binnie, Jon ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84911457403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203807545     Document Type: Chapter

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