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Arnab Chakraborty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Andrew McMillan of the University of Maryland College Park guest blog about a recent article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
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Vertical cities could be much more than monolithic luxury towers, but the idea has its skeptics.
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