Tops and bottoms: State tolerance of illegal housing in Hong Kong and Calgary

Habitat International

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 478-484

  Tanasescu, Alina ^a   Wing tak, Ernest Chui ^b   Smart, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Illegality; Irregularity; Squatters; Toleration

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STATE ROLE; URBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING;

ALBERTA; CALGARY; CANADA; CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 77953603776     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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