Theoretical notes on 'gray cities': The coming of urban apartheid?

Planning Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 88-100

  Yiftachel, Oren ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apartheid; Colonial relations; Gray space; Informality; Urban regime

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; CLASSIFICATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS;

EID: 58149479416     PISSN: 14730952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473095208099300     Document Type: Article

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