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Parks and Quality of Life: Differences among African American and White Residents

Byoung-Suk Kweon, Robert W. Marans and Che-Wei Yi
Landscape Journal, August 2017, 35 (1) 97-108; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.35.1.97
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