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Brussels: Pseudo-capital of Europe. Perspectives of Belgium’s global city in-themaking

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Papadopoulos, A. (2006). Brussels: Pseudo-capital of Europe. Perspectives of Belgium’s global city in-themaking. In: Schneider-Sliwa, R. (eds) Cities in Transition. The GeoJournal Library, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3867-4_10

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