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    The Poetics of the Ordinary: The American Places of Charles W. Moore

    Michelangelo Sabatino

    August 2007

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    This article was originally published in a print issue of Places Journal: Volume 19, Issue 2. The entire print archive (1983–2009) is available in PDF format.

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