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Guest Editor Lionel March introduces Nexus Network Journal volume 13 number 1 (Winter 2010) dedicated to Shape and Shape Grammar.
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March, L. Forty Years of Shape and Shape Grammars, 1971 – 2011. Nexus Netw J 13, 5–13 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-011-0054-8
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