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Urban Policy and Research Volume 28, 2010 - Issue 4: Privatisation, Security and Community: How Master Planned Estates are Changing Suburban Australia
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Life in a Master Planned Estate—Community and Lifestyle or Conflict and Liability?

Robin Goodman AHURI RMIT Research Centre, School of GSSSP, RMIT University, Melbourne, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Kathy Douglas Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Pages 451-469 | Published online: 04 Dec 2010

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