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Cities: Humanizing the urban fabric

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Austin Williams examines two books that probe the dynamic relationship between people and city.

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  1. Austin Williams is associate professor of architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong–Liverpool University in Suzhou, China, and the author of the forthcoming China's Urban Revolution.,

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Williams, A. Cities: Humanizing the urban fabric. Nature 537, 614–615 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/537614a

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