Cities for the urban poor in Zimbabwe: Urban space as a resource for sustainable development

Development in Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 319-331

  Brown, Alison ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL LEGACY; PUBLIC SPACE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0035020044     PISSN: 09614524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09614520120056432     Document Type: Article

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