Neoliberal urbanity and the right to the city: A view from Beirut's periphery

Development and Change

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 827-852

  Fawaz, Mona ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; IDEOLOGY; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; NEOLIBERALISM; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 70849104210     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2009.01585.x     Document Type: Article

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