Counter-urbanisation on the Zambian copperbelt? interpretations and implications.
For the past 20 years, the population of Zambia has been gradually ruralising, or de-urbanising. For a country which was once seen as emblematic of the process of African urbanisation, and was very often cited (erroneously) as being among the first in sub-Saharan Africa to have reached the stage whe...
| Publicado en: | Urban Studies (Routledge) Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 583 - 610 |
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