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Governing street trading in contemporary cities. Anatomy of the policy instruments used by the City of Johannesburg in the post-apartheid era

Claire Bénit-GbaffouCenter for Urbanism and the Built Environment Studies and School of Architecture and Planning, Wits University, Johannesburg, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 396-425 | Published online: 13 Sep 2017

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