Coping strategies for infrastructure: How Turkey's spontaneous settlements operate in the absence of formal rules

Habitat International

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-135

  Baharoglu, Deniz ^a   Leitmann, Josef ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Illegal settlements (Gecekondus); Infrastructure; New institutional economics; Turkey

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISION; INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT; SERVICE DELIVERY;

TURKEY;

EID: 0031817285     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-3975(97)00313-5     Document Type: Article

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