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DETROIT’S FIGHTS FOR COMMUNITY BENEFITS: Exploring the Challenges and Strategies of Securing Community Benefits Agreements in a Legacy City 底特律为社区利益而战：探索在传统城市中确保社区利益协议的挑战和策略

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13312

Lisa Berglund, Jodi Miles

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URBAN AGRICULTURE IN NEO-AUSTERITY TIMES: Reflections on a Contested Policy Domain 新紧缩时代的都市农业：对一个有争议的政策领域的反思

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13314

António Ferreira, Ana MÉLICE DIAS, Miguel Lopes

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CAPITALIZING ON EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES: French Business Schools’ Offshore Campus Investment Strategies in London, Berlin and Barcelona 利用欧洲首都城市：法国商学院在伦敦、柏林和巴塞罗那的离岸校园投资策略

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13322

Alice Bobée

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THE POLITICS OF WANGHONG CONSUMPTION: (Re)Making the Place through New Urban Aestheticisation 王红消费的政治：（再）通过新城市审美化创造场所

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13315

Liu Cao

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PLANNING A EUROPEAN RACIAL CITY: Dealing (with) Dread in Twenty-first-century Berlin 规划一个欧洲种族城市：处理21世纪柏林的恐惧

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13297

Giovanni Picker

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EXPERT FIXERS: Bureaucratic Informality, Brokerage and the Politics of Land in Mumbai 专家调停：孟买的官僚非正式、经纪和土地政治

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13323

Sangeeta Banerji

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EVERYDAY INFRASTRUCTURES OF URBAN LIFE 城市生活的日常基础设施

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13324

Prince K. Guma

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NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya 导航国家空间：来自印度、墨西哥和肯尼亚研究的方法论见解和反思

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13309

Mariana Reyes Carranza, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Neha Gupta, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, Jesus Flores

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BLOOMBERG'S GLOBAL MAYORALTY: Philanthropy and the ‘Crisis of Capacity’ in City Government 布隆伯格的全球市长：慈善和城市政府的“能力危机”

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13307

Tom Baker, Alistair Sisson, Pauline McGuirk, Robyn Dowling, Sophia Maalsen

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THE DENSITY DIALECTIC: Between Hard and Gentle Densification in London 密度辩证法：在伦敦的硬密度化和温和密度化之间

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13319

Victoria Habermehl, Colin McFarlane

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