HABITAT INTERNATIONAL

A Journal for the Study of Human Settlements.

Established at the United Nations Habitat Conference, Vancouver, 1976

Editor Assistant Editor

Charles L. Choguill Marisa B. G. Choguill
E-mail: habitatinternational@gmail.com

Editorial Board
David Brown Riad G. Mahayni Graham Tipple
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne,
CANADA Jossy Materu England, UK
Edwin Chan Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA E. Vaz
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Kay McArdle
HONG KONG
Publisher Peter Ward
Nelson Chan
University of Western Sydney, Penrith South DC, Graeme Newell University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas,USA
New South Wales, AUSTRALIA University of Western Sydney, Sydney,
Edmundo Werna
New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Richard Franceys International Labour Office, Geneve - 22,
Cranfield University, Silsoe, Bedford, UK Ambe Njoh SWITZERLAND
Alan Gilbert University of South Florida, St Petersburg,
Fulong Wu
University College London (UCL), London, Florida, USA
University College London (UCL), London,
England, UK George Ofori England, UK
Richard Harris National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
Yuzhe Wu
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA Radha Ganesan Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Zhejiang, CHINA
Eddie Chi-Man Hui Journal Manager
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Haiqing Xu
Abdul Ghani Salleh
HONG KONG The Corporation of the City of Windsor, Windsor,
Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, MALAYSIA
Dennis Ingemann Ontario, CANADA
Richard Sliuzas
RMIT University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Kioe Sheng Yap
International Inst. for Geo-Information Science
Gareth Jones & Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, Bangkok, THAILAND
London School of Economics, London, UK NETHERLANDS X.Q. Zhang
Yu Li UN-HABITAT, Nairobi, KENYA
Alan Smart
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA Pengjun Zhao
Paul van Lindert
Utrecht University, Utrecht, NETHERLANDS Florian Steinberg Peking University, Beijing, CHINA
Medellin, COLOMBIA
Hualou Long Jieming Zhu
Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Wendy Taylor National University of Singapore,
Resources Research, Anwai, Beijing, CHINA Nairobi, KENYA SINGAPORE

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