Cars are killing Luanda: Cronyism, consumerism, and other assaults on angola’s postwar, capital city

Cities in Contemporary Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 173-199

  Pitcher, M Anne ^a   Graham, Aubrey ^a  

^a Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

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EID: 84991997087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230603349     Document Type: Chapter

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