Informal neighborhoods in the buenos aires metropolitan region: Understanding the effects of land regulation on the welfare of the poor

Urban Land Markets: Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 163-190

  Goytia, Cynthia ^a   Lanfranchi, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

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EID: 84892204104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8862-9_7     Document Type: Chapter

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