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Homelessness in the Public Landscape: A Typology of Informal Infrastructure

Cory Parker
Landscape Journal, July 2021, 40 (1) 49-66; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/wplj.40.1.49
Cory Parker
Cory Parker researches homeless communities of West Coast cities while instructing students in landscape architecture at the University of California, Davis. He is a 2019–2020 Faculty Fellow of Design for Spatial Justice at the University of Oregon. He completed a PhD in Geography at UC Davis with a dissertation on homeless mobility. Prior to that, he practiced landscape architecture in Seattle for 18 years.
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