Governing post apartheid spatiality: Implementing city improvement districts in Cape Town

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Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 602-626

  Miraftab, Faranak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

CapeTown; Improvement districts; Neoliberal governance; Post apartheid city; South Africa; Urban revitalization

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT; NEOLIBERALISM; POST-APARTHEID; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBAN RENEWAL; URBAN SOCIETY;

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

EID: 34548792906     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2007.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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