More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act: Housing, spatial planning and urban development in post-apartheid South Africa

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 579-587

  Newton, Caroline ^a   Schuermans, Nick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Comparative urbanism; Housing; South Africa; Spatial planning; Urban development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885840920     PISSN: 15664910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10901-013-9344-7     Document Type: Editorial

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