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- ↑ Michael Dear: Professor of City and Regional Planning in the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. The Huffington Post. Accessed December 2016.
- ↑ Why Walls Won't Work. Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Professor Michael Dear FLSW
