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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

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Pages 167-190 | Published online: 30 May 2013

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