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Business Improvement Areas and the Justification of Urban Revitalization: Using the Pragmatic Sociology of Critique to Understand Neoliberal Urban Governance

Daniel Kudla
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The article was published on 2019-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 0 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban sociology & Social order.

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