47 : stand still for a minute
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introduction, contents masthead
Stephanie White
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Mining architecture
Tim Sharp
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Documentary happens, 2007
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Anne-Catherine Lemonde
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Pausing in the site analysis
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Arthur Nishimura
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Roots, 1976
Tomas Jonsson
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Letters to an absence
Anne O’Callaghan
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Two projects, 2013, 2015
Corey Watanabe
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Dancing with ghosts
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Angela Silver
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Place des Montréalaises: repairing torn urban fabric
Chloe Watkinson and Sierra Dustin
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Making urban fabric
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