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Street trade, neoliberalisation and the control of space: Nairobi's Central Business District in the era of entrepreneurial urbanism

Marianne MorangeDepartment of Geography, CESSMA – UMR 245, University Paris Diderot-PRES Sorbonne-Paris-Cité, Paris;Institut Universitaire de France (Junior Fellow), Paris, FranceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 247-269 | Received 18 Mar 2013, Accepted 22 Jan 2015, Published online: 11 Mar 2015

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