From barrack compounds to the single-family house: Planning worker housing in colonial Natal and Northern Rhodesia

Planning Perspectives

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 327-347

  Home, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COLONIALISM; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HOUSING PROVISION;

AFRICA;

EID: 0033813209     PISSN: 02665433     EISSN: 14664518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026654300420945     Document Type: Article

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