Housing as graveyard: A tale of housing culture in Nigeria

Third World Planning Review

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 317-330

  Ogu, Vincent I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; HOUSING; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SUBURBANIZATION;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0033302905     PISSN: 01427849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/twpr.21.3.f148m3n778j84424     Document Type: Article

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