Self-help housing as a flexible instrument of state control in 20th-century South Africa

Housing Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 367-386

  Parnell, Susan ^a   Hart, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOUSING POLICY; RECONSTRUCTION; SELF HELP; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0032781996     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673039982858     Document Type: Article

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