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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The spatiality and temporality of urban violence This edited volume asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment, and through particular 'urban' social relations. The book builds on the insight that... RRP: $200.00 $192.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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