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The Scholarship of Transdisciplinary Action Research

Toward a New Paradigm for the Planning and Design Professions

Susan Thering and Victoria Chanse
Landscape Journal, March 2011, 30 (1) 6-18; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.30.1.6
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