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The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe

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    Sasha Tsenkova (Professor)

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  1. Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4

    Sasha Tsenkova

  2. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 611 Taft Drive, Temple Bell Hall, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA

    Zorica Nedović-Budić

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Tsenkova, S. (2006). Beyond transitions: Understanding urban change in post-socialist cities. In: Tsenkova, S., Nedović-Budić, Z. (eds) The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1727-9_2

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