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Original Articles

Gender, Residential Location, and Household Travel: Empirical Findings from Low‐income Urban Settlements in Durban, South Africa

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Pages 653-677 | Received 03 Feb 2006, Accepted 09 Aug 2006, Published online: 16 Oct 2007

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