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Shared ethnography of shared cities. / Potts, Robert; Sharma, Dhruv; Lindley, Joseph.
EPIC 2015 Proceedings: Building Bridges. Wiley, 2015. p. 88-104.

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Potts, R, Sharma, D & Lindley, J 2015, Shared ethnography of shared cities. in EPIC 2015 Proceedings: Building Bridges. Wiley, pp. 88-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/1559-8918.2015.01042

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Potts, R., Sharma, D., & Lindley, J. (2015). Shared ethnography of shared cities. In EPIC 2015 Proceedings: Building Bridges (pp. 88-104). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/1559-8918.2015.01042

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Potts R, Sharma D, Lindley J. Shared ethnography of shared cities. In EPIC 2015 Proceedings: Building Bridges. Wiley. 2015. p. 88-104 doi: 10.1111/1559-8918.2015.01042

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Potts, Robert ; Sharma, Dhruv ; Lindley, Joseph. / Shared ethnography of shared cities. EPIC 2015 Proceedings: Building Bridges. Wiley, 2015. pp. 88-104

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