Urban Tourism and the De-gaying of Cape Town’s De Waterkant

Urban Forum

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 469-482

  Visser, Gustav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEIGHBORHOOD; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

CAPE TOWN; DE WATERKANT; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 84919880109     PISSN: 10153802     EISSN: 18746330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12132-014-9237-1     Document Type: Article

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