Utopian urbanism and representational city-ness: On the Dholera before Dholera smart city

Dialogues in Human Geography

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-30

  Jazeel, Tariq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

City ness; representation; Smart City; Subaltern Geographies; Utopian Urbanism

Indexed keywords

URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

DHOLERA; INDIA;

EID: 84975095871     PISSN: 20438206     EISSN: 20438214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2043820614565866     Document Type: Article

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