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WE THE PLUG THO: Energy Democracy and the Politics of Social Reproduction in Atlanta WE THE PLUG - THO：亚特兰大的能源民主与社会再生产政治

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 Epub Date: 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70067

Wan R. Smith, Nikki Luke

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RECONSIDERING INCREMENTALISM: Implementing the Mumbai Climate Action Plan 反思渐进主义：实施孟买气候行动计划

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 Epub Date: 2026-03-02 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70076

IKE URI

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VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage 多伦多中产阶级化的视觉谈判：城市标识的争论、政治化和抵抗

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 Epub Date: 2026-03-04 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70071

Lindi Jahiu, Jonathan Cinnamon, Agnieszka Leszczynski

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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter-measures 城市与住房研究中的认知抽取：启示与对策

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 Epub Date: 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70055

Miguel A. Martínez

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‘EVERYTHING IS BEING DISTURBED’: Unsettling the Spaces of Global Infrastructure along the Northern Corridor “一切都在被扰乱”：扰乱沿北部走廊的全球基础设施空间

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 Epub Date: 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70072

Jonathan Silver, Sydney Nsubuga

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AN URBAN MARKETPLACE UNDER PRESSURE: The Steady Gentrification Process of Porta Palazzo (Turin) Through the Eyes of Market Sellers and Policy Makers 压力下的城市市场：市场卖家和政策制定者眼中的门塔宫（都灵）稳步的中产阶级化过程

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 Epub Date: 2026-03-04 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70077

Francesca Ru

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THE REFUGEE CAMP AS SITUATION AND RELATION: Yarmouk and the Stakes of Camp Space amid Urban Integration 难民营的处境与关系：耶尔穆克与城市一体化中的难民营空间风险

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 Epub Date: 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70060

Matthew DeMaio

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CENSUS UNDERCOUNTS, DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT, AND DATA JUSTICE: What Social Scientists and Data Users Need to Know About the 2020 US Census 人口普查低估、数字位移和数据正义：社会科学家和数据用户需要了解的2020年美国人口普查

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 Epub Date: 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70069

Jason R. Jurjevich

{"title":"CENSUS UNDERCOUNTS, DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT, AND DATA JUSTICE: What Social Scientists and Data Users Need to Know About the 2020 US Census","authors":"Jason R. Jurjevich","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.70069","url":null,"abstract":"Census data are foundational to democracy, research and equitable urban policy. In addition to supporting political reapportionment and redistricting, census data serve as the backbone of the federal statistical data system and are often considered the highest quality data—the ‘gold standard'—for scholarly and policy research. In the United States, undercounts, new data protection mechanisms, and other challenges are eroding data quality and threatening census data as a trusted public good. First, I review the accuracy of the 2020 Census. The data show that the 2020 Census, while accurate, excluded millions of Americans; undercounts were severe for people of color, immigrants, and other marginalized communities. Second, I explain the US Census Bureau’s decision to protect individual privacy by intentionally distorting census data with differential privacy, leading to the ‘digital displacement' of certain populations. Together, the ‘double whammy' of worsening coverage error and differential privacy disproportionately affects communities of color and other marginalized groups, underscoring issues of data justice. Navigating this uneven and increasingly precarious digital landscape, I argue, requires practicing statistical citizenship, a theoretically informed approach that properly situates data limitations and simultaneously recognizes the politics of census data to support data justice.","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"50 5","pages":"1347-1365"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-2427.70069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148962662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal 荒原行动主义：蒙特利尔的政治杂草和生态想象

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70070

Daniela Giudici

{"title":"WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal","authors":"Daniela Giudici","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.70070","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials. I focus on a seemingly marginal topic—urban weeds—to explore how human–weed relations can help us situate contemporary environmental concerns within longer histories of spatial violence, ecological degradation and settler power relations. Shifting perceptions of invasive and native weeds unsettle normative frameworks of urban biodiversity and reveal how polluted ecologies can be reinterpreted as sites of value and resistance. Here, I use wasteland activism to define grassroots efforts to protect unconventional, often stigmatized forms of urban nature from erasure within ongoing processes of urban redevelopment. Wasteland activism not only challenges official green transition narratives but also produces alternative visions of ‘worthy environments’ that expose the inherent contradictions of top-down narratives of repair and growth. In contexts where industrialism, far from belonging to the past, is very much an ongoing project, political weeds embody the disjuncture between institutional promises of green development and the slow work of building living presents amid enduring contamination.","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"50 5","pages":"1332-1346"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-2427.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148962441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid-range 预兆领域：论中程的预言组织

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 Epub Date: 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70062

Alberto Corsín Jiménez

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