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Title:West African Urbanization: Patterns of Convergence or Devergence?
Authors:McNulty, Michael L.
Horton, Frank E.
Year:1976
Periodical:Pan-African Journal
Volume:9
Issue:2
Pages:169-180
Language:English
Geographic term:West Africa
Subjects:urbanization
Urbanization and Migration
Abstract:The process of urbanization affecting West Africa is not unique to that region. In this particle the A.'s contend that urbanization as it affects West Africa is tending to produce convergent paths' creating urban institutions and in some cases urban spatial structure, which are becoming more, not less, similar. Sections: divergent or convergent paths? - the modern world system - the African urban inheritance - planning as an intervention strategy. Notes, tables.
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