Politics and the Urban Frontier : : Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa / / Tom Goodfellow
Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes, urban formations remain diverse in their socio-economic and spatial characteristics, with varying potential to fos...
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