The informal practice of appropriation and social control - experience from a bosti in Dhaka

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 209-224

  Hossain, Shahadat ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dhaka; exclusion; informal settlement; land distribution; negotiation; power relations; water supply

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; POWER RELATIONS; WATER SUPPLY;

BANGLADESH; DHAKA [BANGLADESH];

EID: 84875977178     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247812465803     Document Type: Article

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