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Repurposing Vacant Land through Landscape Connectivity

Galen D. Newman, Alison L. Smith and Samuel D. Brody
Landscape Journal, January 2018, 36 (1) 37-57; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.36.1.37
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