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Title: Biggs, H., Suttles, S., Bardzell, S. Redlining Maps and Terrains of Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Mapping of Racialized Redlining to Present-Day Sustainability Agendas in HCI. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023). ACM
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2418059
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10544857
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ACM
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National Science Foundation
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