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Advancing Transdisciplinary Action Research in Rural Pennsylvania

The Case for Plural Design in the Susquehanna River Towns

Caru Bowns
Landscape Journal, March 2011, 30 (1) 88-105; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.30.1.88
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