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Harvey Molotch, William Freudenburg, Krista E. Paulsen, History Repeats Itself, But How? City Character, Urban Tradition, and the Accomplishment of Place, American Sociological Review, Vol. 65, No. 6 (Dec., 2000), pp. 791-823
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