The makeshift city: Towards a global geography of squatting

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 338-359

  Vasudevan, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

inhabitation; precarity; squatting; urban geography; urbanism

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84930406105     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: 14770288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132514531471     Document Type: Article

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