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Designing the Correctional Landscape: An Invitation to Landscape Architecture Professionals

Julie L. Stevens, Barb Toews and Amy Wagenfeld
Landscape Journal, January 2018, 37 (1) 55-72; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.37.1.55

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Julie L. Stevens, Barb Toews, Amy Wagenfeld
Landscape Journal Jan 2018, 37 (1) 55-72; DOI: 10.3368/lj.37.1.55
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