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Guerrillas in Our Midst

Ad Hoc Urbanism and Public Practice

Susannah Abbey
Landscape Journal, May 2023, 42 (1) 77-90; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.42.1.77
Susannah Abbey
Susannah Abbey is a writer and landscape designer who teaches in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
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