Struggling, suffering, hoping, waiting: Perceptions of temporality in two informal neighbourhoods in Mexico

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 813-829

  Lombard, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mexico; Postcolonial; Space; Time; Urban informal settlements

Indexed keywords

HOUSING CONDITIONS; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; MARGINALIZATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; PERCEPTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84885638285     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d21610     Document Type: Article

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