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Guest, A.M., Brown, S.K. (2005). Population Distribution and Suburbanization. In: Poston, D.L., Micklin, M. (eds) Handbook of Population. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23106-4_3

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