The Morphology of African Cities
This paper illustrates how the capabilities of GIS and satellite imagery can be harnessed to explore and better understand the urban form of several large African cities (Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kigali, Dar es Salaam, and Dakar). To allow for compara...
Main Authors: | Antos, Sarah E., Lall, Somik V., Lozano-Gracia, Nancy |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/502451481312733719/The-morphology-of-African-cities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25810 |
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