Privatising Cape Town: From apartheid to neo-liberalism in the Mother City

Urban Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1461-1484

  McDonald, David A ^a   Smith, Laïla ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEOLIBERALISM; PLANNING PROCESS; POLICY MAKING; PRIVATIZATION; URBAN PLANNING;

AFRICA; CAPE TOWN; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 3142705312     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098042000226957     Document Type: Article

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