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How Does Design Quality Add to our Understanding of Walkable Communities?

Jessica A. Cook, Mallika Bose, Wesley E. Marshall and Deborah S. Main
Landscape Journal, February 2014, 32 (2) 151-162; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.32.2.151
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