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Cities Full of Symbols
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Cities Full of
Symbols
A Theory of
Urban Space
and Culture
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Edited by
Peter . Nas
Leiden University Press
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4 Cities Full of Symbols
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ISBN 978 90 8964 125 0
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Contents 5
7 1. Introduction: Variety of Symbols
Peter . Nas, Marlies de Groot and Michelle Schut
27 2. Emotion in the Symbolic Spectrum of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Michelle Schut, Peter . Nas and Siri T. Hettige
55 3. Squares, Water and Historic Buildings: The Transformin