Creative Industries, Inequality and Social Development: Developments, Impacts and Challenges in Cape Town

Urban Forum

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-60

  Booyens, Irma ^a,b  

^a HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cities; Creative industries; Gentrification; Inequality; Post industrial; Urban renewal

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GENTRIFICATION; GLOBAL ECONOMY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; NEIGHBORHOOD; POLICY MAKING; RESIDENT POPULATION; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL POLICY; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN RENEWAL;

CAPE TOWN; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 84857643664     PISSN: 10153802     EISSN: 18746330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12132-012-9140-6     Document Type: Article

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