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———. Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance . London: Headline, 2003.

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———. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

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