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From Planned Shrinkage to Formerly Urban

Staking Landscape Architecture’s Claim in the Shrinking City Debate

Jill Desimini
Landscape Journal, August 2014, 33 (1) 17-35; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.33.1.17
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