Trends in urban and slum indicators across developing world cities, 1990-2003

Habitat International

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-108

  Martínez, Javier ^a   Mboup, Gora ^b   Sliuzas, Richard ^a   Stein, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Nairobi   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Millenium Development Goals; Slums; Trends; Urban indicators

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; SANITATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 36849089070     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2007.08.018     Document Type: Article

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