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Theoretical approach to urban ontology: a contribution from urban system analysis

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Caglioni, M., Rabino, G.A. (2007). Theoretical approach to urban ontology: a contribution from urban system analysis. In: Teller, J., Lee, J.R., Roussey, C. (eds) Ontologies for Urban Development. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71976-2_10

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