Globalizing city: The urban and economic transformation of Accra, Ghana

Globalizing City: The Urban and Economic Transformation of Accra, Ghana

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-187

  Grant, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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