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The futures that never were: Railway infrastructure and housing in mid-nineteenth-century London and Paris

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The futures that never were: Railway infrastructure and housing in mid-nineteenth-century London and Paris. / Lopez-Galviz, Carlos Andres.
Historicizing Infrastructure. ed. / Andreas Marklund; Mogens Rüdiger. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2017. p. 115-136 (Studies in History, Archives and Cultural Heritage).

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Lopez-Galviz, CA 2017, The futures that never were: Railway infrastructure and housing in mid-nineteenth-century London and Paris. in A Marklund & M Rüdiger (eds), Historicizing Infrastructure. Studies in History, Archives and Cultural Heritage, Aalborg University Press, Aalborg, pp. 115-136.

APA

Lopez-Galviz, C. A. (2017). The futures that never were: Railway infrastructure and housing in mid-nineteenth-century London and Paris. In A. Marklund, & M. Rüdiger (Eds.), Historicizing Infrastructure (pp. 115-136). (Studies in History, Archives and Cultural Heritage). Aalborg University Press.

Vancouver

Lopez-Galviz CA. The futures that never were: Railway infrastructure and housing in mid-nineteenth-century London and Paris. In Marklund A, Rüdiger M, editors, Historicizing Infrastructure. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press. 2017. p. 115-136. (Studies in History, Archives and Cultural Heritage).

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Lopez-Galviz, Carlos Andres. / The futures that never were : Railway infrastructure and housing in mid-nineteenth-century London and Paris. Historicizing Infrastructure. editor / Andreas Marklund ; Mogens Rüdiger. Aalborg : Aalborg University Press, 2017. pp. 115-136 (Studies in History, Archives and Cultural Heritage).

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