When overwhelming needs meet underwhelming prospects: Sustaining community open space activism in East St. Louis

Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 255-266

  Lawson, Laura ^a   Sorensen, Janni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

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