Sprawl as strategy: City planners face the bomb

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 52-63

  Dudley, Michael Quinn ^a  

^a Institute of Urban Studies   (Canada)

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EID: 0005162795     PISSN: 0739456X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0739456x0102100105     Document Type: Article

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