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Cultivating (a) Sustainability Capital: Urban Agriculture, Ecogentrification, and the Uneven Valorization of Social Reproduction

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Pages 579-590 | Received 01 Nov 2016, Accepted 01 Feb 2017, Published online: 22 Sep 2017

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