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Living with air-conditioning: experiences in Dubai, Chongqing and London Cover

Living with air-conditioning: experiences in Dubai, Chongqing and London

Open Access
|Feb 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.147 | Journal eISSN: 2632-6655
Language: English
Submitted on: Sep 1, 2021
Accepted on: Jan 21, 2022
Published on: Feb 9, 2022
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