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concept:spiritual-ownership

Spiritual ownership

A deep, non-legal sense of possession and care for a place that prevents it from becoming slum-like; contrasted with physical ownership alone

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Chapters (1)

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  • Chapter 1 of Volume 3, introducing the concepts of belonging and not-belonging in the built environment

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