Retrieving the baby from the bathwater: Slum upgrading in Sub-Saharan Africa

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 486-515

  Gulyani, Sumila ^a   Bassett, Ellen M ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING CONDITIONS; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; LAND TENURE; LIVING STANDARD; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34548034965     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c4p     Document Type: Article

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