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The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe

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  1. Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

    Sonia Hirt (Assistant Professor)

  2. Urban and Regional Planning, University of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Atanass Kovachev (Professor)

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  1. Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4

    Sasha Tsenkova

  2. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 611 Taft Drive, Temple Bell Hall, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA

    Zorica Nedović-Budić

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Hirt, S., Kovachev, A. (2006). The changing spatial structure of post-socialist Sofia. In: Tsenkova, S., Nedović-Budić, Z. (eds) The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1727-9_6

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