Rethinking Informality: Politics, Crisis, and the City

Planning Theory and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-108

  McFarlane, Colin ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crisis; formality; informality; Mumbai; practice; urbanism

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; PLANNING PRACTICE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI;

EID: 84859607985     PISSN: 14649357     EISSN: 1470000X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2012.649951     Document Type: Article

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