Contentious development: Peri-urban studies in sub-Saharan Africa

Progress in Development Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-131

  Mbiba, Beacon ^a   Huchzermeyer, Marie ^b  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

contradictions; development theory; peri urban transformations; sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996173467     PISSN: 14649934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1464993402ps032ra     Document Type: Article

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