Welcome to the club! An exploratory study of service accessibility in commodity housing estates in Guangzhou, China;Bienvenue au club! Une étude exploratrice de l’accessibilité aux services dans les cités résidentielles fermées de Guangzhou, en Chine;¡Bienvenido al club! Un estudio exploratorio de la accesibilidad a los servicios en las urbanizaciones cerradas en Cantón, China

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 371-394

  Hendrikx, Martijn ^a   Wissink, Bart ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; club goods; exclusion; gated communities; Guangzhou; Urban services

Indexed keywords

GATED COMMUNITY; GOVERNMENT; SERVICE PROVISION; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN SERVICE;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

EID: 84966908039     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2016.1181197     Document Type: Article

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