Faces of Places: Façades as Global Communication in Post-Eastern Bloc Urban Renewal

Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 256-273

  Gendelman, Irina ^a   Aiello, Giorgia ^b  

^a Saint Martin’s University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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