Avoiding encounters with poverty: Aesthetics, politics and economics in a privileged neighbourhood of Cape Town

Order and Conflict in Public Space

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 79-100

  Schuermans, Nick ^a   Spocter, Manfred ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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