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Original Articles

China: What About the Urban Revolution? Rapid Transformations in Chinese Planning and Its Links with a Slowly Emerging European Planning Theory

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Pages 1997-2011 | Received 01 Nov 2010, Accepted 02 Jun 2011, Published online: 01 May 2012

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