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Special section: Townhouses and suburbs: unexpected views of social change in South Africa. Edited by Ivor Chipkin and Sarah Meny-Gibert

Peripheries, suburbanisms and change in sub-Saharan African cities

Alan Mabin School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Siân Butcher University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Robin Bloch ICF GHK Consulting, London, United Kingdom; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Pages 167-190 | Published online: 30 May 2013

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