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      ‘Unprecedented times’: historical narratives of public health in the built environment

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                Contributors
                Role: Guest Editor
                Role: Guest Editor
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                Archit_MPS
                Architecture_MPS
                UCL Press
                2050-9006
                04 April 2023
                : 24
                : 1
                : 5
                Affiliations
                Northumbria University, UK
                Syracuse University, New York, USA
                [1 ]Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
                [2 ]Associate Professor, Environmental and Interior Design, School of Design, Syracuse University, New York, USA
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                AMPS-24-5
                10.14324/111.444.amps.2023v24i1.005
                8dacdf4b-46fe-40fe-bce5-86ba565d0e56
                2023, Tara Hipwood and Seyeon Lee.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2023v24i1.005.

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                Hipwood, T. and Lee, S. ‘“Unprecedented times”: historical narratives of public health in the built environment’. Architecture_MPS 24, 1 (2023): 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2023v24i1.005.

                Sociology,Political science,Political & Social philosophy,Urban studies,Architecture,Communication & Media studies

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