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Cooler streets for a cycleable city: assessing policy alignment Cover

Cooler streets for a cycleable city: assessing policy alignment

By: Crystal Tang and  Judy Bush  
Open Access
|Mar 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.508 | Journal eISSN: 2632-6655
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 3, 2024
Accepted on: Jan 22, 2025
Published on: Mar 4, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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