Urban sustainability at the limits: Development rhetorics and realities in Tanzania

Development

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 317-324

  Bissell, William Cunningham ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

African cities; development; infrastructure; tourism; urban planning; Zanzibar

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR ISLAND;

EID: 80052539256     PISSN: 10116370     EISSN: 14617072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/dev.2011.63     Document Type: Article

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