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Urban Design as a Collective Enterprise: The Challenge of Housing Development in Memphis (TN, USA)

Antonio RacitiUrban Planning and Community Development (UPCD) Program, School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 392-408 | Published online: 26 Nov 2018

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