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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction and Axioms of Urban Economics | |
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| What Is Urban Economics? | |
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| What Is a City? | |
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| Why Do Cities Exist? | |
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| The Five Axioms of Urban Economics | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Census Definitions | |
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| Urban Population | |
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| Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas | |
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| Principal City | |
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| Market Forces in the Development of Cities | |
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| Why Do Cities Exist? | |
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| A Region Without Cities-Backyard Production | |
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| A Trading City | |
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| Trading Cities in Urban History | |
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| A Factory Town | |
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| The Industrial Revolution and Factory Cities | |
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| A System of Factory Towns | |
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| Materials-Oriented Firms and Processing Towns | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional reading | |
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| Why Do Firms Cluster? | |
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| Sharing Intermediate Inputs | |
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| Sharing a Labor Pool | |
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| Labor Matching | |
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| Knowledge Spillovers | |
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| Self-Reinforcing Effects Cause Industry Clusters | |
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| Evidence of Localization Economies | |
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| Urbanization Economies | |
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| Other Benefits of Urban Size | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| City Size | |
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| Utility and City Size | |
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| A System of Cities | |
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| Specialized and Diverse Cities | |
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| Differences in City Size | |
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| The Size Distribution of Cities | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Urban Growth | |
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| Economic Growth: Increase in Per-Capita Income | |
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| City-Specific Innovation and Income | |
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| Human Capital and Economic Growth | |
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| Urban Employment Growth | |
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| Public Policy and Equilibrium Employment | |
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| Projecting Changes in Total Employment | |
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| Who Benefits from Increased Employment? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| The Regional Context of Urban Growth | |
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| The Neoclassical Model | |
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| Regional Concentration and Dispersion in the U.S. | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Land Rent and Land Use Patterns | |
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| Urban Land Rent | |
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| Introduction to Land Rent | |
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| Bid-Rent Curves for the Manufacturing Sector | |
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| Bid-Rent Curves for the Information Sector | |
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| Office Bid-Rent Curves with Factor Substitution | |
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| Housing Prices | |
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| The Residential Bid-Rent Curve | |
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| Relaxing the Assumptions: Time Costs, Public Services, Taxes, Amenities | |
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| Land-Use Patterns | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Consumer and Factor Substitution | |
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| Consumer Choice and the Law of Demand | |
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| Input Choice and Factor Substitution | |
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| Land-Use Patterns | |
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| The Spatial Distribution of Jobs and People | |
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| A Closer Look at Subcenters | |
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| Urban Density | |
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| The Rise of the Monocentric City | |
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| The Demise of the Monocentric City | |
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| Urban Sprawl | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| The Monocentric Model and Applications | |
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| The Monocentric Model | |
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| Income and Location | |
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| A General Equilibrium Model of a Monocentric City | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| Neighborhood Choice | |
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| Diversity versus Segregation | |
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| Sorting for Local Public Goods | |
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| Neighborhood Externalities | |
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| Neighborhood Choice | |
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| Schools and Neighborhood Choice | |
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| Crime and Neighborhood Choice | |
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| Racial Segregation | |
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| Consequences of Segregation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Zoning and Growth Controls | |
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| Land-Use Zoning | |
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| The Legal Environment of Zoning | |
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| A City Without Zoning? | |
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| Growth Control: Urban Growth Boundaries | |
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| Other Growth-Control Policies | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Urban Transportation | |
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| Externalities from Autos | |
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| Congestion Externalities | |
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| The Congestion Tax | |
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| Practicalities of the Congestion Tax | |
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| Alternatives to a Congestion Tax | |
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| The Road Capacity Decision | |
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| Autos and Air Pollution | |
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| Motor Vehicle Accidents | |
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| Automobiles and Poverty | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Mass Transit | |
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| Mass Transit Facts | |
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| Choosing a Travel Mode: Commuter Choices | |
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| Designing a Transit System | |
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| Subsidies for Public Transit | |
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| Deregulation: Contracting and Paratransit | |
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| Transit and Land-Use Patterns | |
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| Mass Transit and Poverty | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Urban Crime | |
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| Crime | |
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| Crime Facts | |
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| The Rational Criminal | |
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| The Equilibrium Quantity of Crime | |
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| Legal Opportunities and Education | |
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| Applications: Big-City Crime and the Crime Drop | |
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| How Much Crime? | |
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| The Role of Prisons | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Housing | |
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| Why Is Housing Different? | |
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| Heterogeneity and Hedonics | |
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| Durability, Deterioration, and Maintenance | |
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| Moving Costs and Consumer Disequilibrium | |
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| The Filtering Model of the Housing Market | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Housing Policy | |
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| Public Housing | |
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| Housing Vouchers | |
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| Community Development and Urban Renewal | |
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| Which Housing Policy is Best? | |
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| Subsidies for Mortgage Interest | |
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| Rent Control and Rent Regulation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Local Government | |
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| The Role of Local Government | |
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| The Role of Local Government | |
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| Local Public Goods: Equilibrium versus Optimum | |
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| Natural Monopoly | |
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| Externalities | |
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| Federalism and Metropolitan Government | |
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| A Closer Look at the Median Voter Result | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Local Government Revenue | |
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| Who Pays the Residential Property Tax? | |
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| From Models to Reality | |
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| The Tiebout Model and the Property Tax | |
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| Limits on Property Taxes | |
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| Intergovernmental Grants | |
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| Applications: Welfare and Education Grants | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying the Concepts | |
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| References and Additional Reading | |
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| Tools of Microeconomics | |
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| Index | |