Who is building what in urban Ghana? Housing supply in three towns

Cities

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 399-416

  Tipple, A Graham ^a   Korboe, David ^b   Willis, Ken ^a   Garrod, Guy ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

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EID: 0000391632     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0264-2751(98)00036-5     Document Type: Article

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