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Environmental Design, Systems Thinking, and Human Agency: McHarg’s Ecological Method and Steinitz and Rogers’s Interdisciplinary Education Experiment

Moa Karolina Carlsson
Landscape Journal, August 2018, 36 (2) 37-52; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.36.2.37
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