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The Meaning and Design of Farmers’ Markets as Public Space

An Issue-Based Case Study

Mark Francis and Lucas Griffith
Landscape Journal, September 2011, 30 (2) 261-279; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.30.2.261
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