Informal settlements: Production and intervention in twentieth-century Brazil and South Africa

Latin American Perspectives

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 83-105

  Huchzermeyer, Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENTELISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; URBAN POLICY; URBAN POPULATION;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036139394     PISSN: 0094582X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X0202900105     Document Type: Article

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