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The City in Urban Poverty

Charlotte Lemanski and Colin Marx Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, United Kingdom, 2015, 239pp., ISBN: 978-1-137-36743-3

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Castells-Quintana, D. The City in Urban Poverty. Eur J Dev Res 29, 942–944 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-017-0084-5

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