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Denise Scott Brown’s active socioplastics and urban sociology: from Learning from West End to Learning from Levittown

Marianna Charitonidoua Department of Architecture ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;b Faculty of Art Theory and History , Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece;c School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, GreeceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 131-158 | Received 10 Mar 2022, Accepted 05 Apr 2022, Published online: 19 May 2022

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