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The new urbanism and the modern metropolis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2009

David Schuyler
David Schuyler
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Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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Urban History , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , December 1997 , pp. 344 - 358
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