Mapping urban poverty for local governance in an Indian mega-city: The case of Delhi

Urban Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1385-1412

  Baud, Isa ^a   Sridharan, N ^b   Pfeffer, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; CORRELATION; GIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INDEX METHOD; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

ASIA; DELHI; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 43449115107     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098008090679     Document Type: Article

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