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This is temporary : how transient projects are redefining architecture / edited by: Cate St Hill. (OCLC #919342602)

For this record, it was tempting to add a full stop following St in the author’s name, although it does not appear that way anywhere on the book, or on the author’s web site. We often do that in American English when words are abbreviated, as in St. Louis, or Mr. Mom. However, in British English when the shortened word is more of a contraction (say, the first and last letter) instead of an abbreviation (the first couple of letters), no full stop is used; for example: Mr for Mister, Dr for Doctor, St for Saint, but still Wed. for Wednesday.

The editor of this title is based in London, which may explain the punctuation used on this piece, and I transcribed that to the record:

    245 00 ǂa This is temporary : ǂb how transient projects
        are redefining architecture / ǂc edited by: Cate St Hill.
    700 1_ ǂa St Hill, Cate, ǂe editor.

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