Conceptualising slum in an urban African context

Cities

Volumn 62, Issue , 2017, Pages 107-119

  Smit, Suzanne ^a   Musango, Josephine Kaviti ^a   Kovacic, Zora ^b   Brent, Alan C ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Informal settlement; Multi scale analysis; South Africa; Urban Africa; Urban metabolism; Urban slums

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; TYPOLOGY; URBAN HOUSING; URBANIZATION;

SOUTH AFRICA; STELLENBOSCH; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 85009064367     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2016.12.018     Document Type: Article

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