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Placemaking living lab: creating resilient social and spatial infrastructures

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|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.634 | Journal eISSN: 2632-6655
Language: English
Submitted on: Apr 21, 2025
Accepted on: Nov 17, 2025
Published on: Dec 9, 2025
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