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Place-making, place-disruption, and place protection of urban blue spaces: perceptions of waterfront planning of a polluted urban waterbody

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Pages 1008-1025 | Received 16 Jun 2020, Accepted 22 Jun 2021, Published online: 13 Jul 2021

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