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“Retro-Greening” Suburban Calgary

Application of the Green Factor to a Typical Calgary Residential Site

Daniel Roehr and Yuewei Kong
Landscape Journal, September 2010, 29 (2) 124-143; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.29.2.124
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