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Ecological Planning in 1920s California: The Olmsted Brothers Design of Palos Verdes Estates

Christine Edstrom O’Hara
Landscape Journal, August 2017, 35 (2) 219-235; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.35.2.219
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