Participatory farce: Youth and the making of urban places in Zimbabwe.
Discussions with Harare's youth and planners revealed that the direction, form and content of urban planning are cast in stone. In most cases, the outcome of planning is a foregone conclusion. This makes it impossible to factor in some grand schemes that are outside the confines of what has already...
| Publicado en: | International Development Planning Review Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 359 - 381 |
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