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CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China 中国大学作为城市开发商：中国南京两个创新综合体的故事

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-07-09 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70053

Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang

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REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film-Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon 代表农业-城市边界的污染：黎巴嫩巴伊莱亚斯的参与式纪录片制作

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-07-09 Epub Date: 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70041

Hannah Sender, Hanna Baumann, Joana Dabaj

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‘CLOSING THE CARBON LOOP’: Climate Policy Discourses and the Material Politics of Municipal Waste-to-Biofuel Programs “关闭碳循环”：气候政策话语和城市垃圾转化为生物燃料项目的物质政治

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-07-09 Epub Date: 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70032

Taylor Davey

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CARE MATTERS IN THE ENTANGLED COMMONS: Perspectives on a Temporality of Urgency, Knowledge Co-production and Infrastructures of Sociality in Diverse Urban Contexts 在纠缠的公地中关心是重要的：在不同的城市背景下急迫性、知识共同生产和社会性基础设施的观点

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-07-09 Epub Date: 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70054

Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe

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IF 1.9 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-05-14

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IF 1.9 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-05-14

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SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle-class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa 高分、付费、进入：南非数字资本主义下中产阶级的形成和资产不平等

IF 1.9 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-03-10 Epub Date: 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70004

Julien Migozzi

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‘FROM GHETTO TO HABITUS FACTORY’ ROMA CAMPS IN ITALY: An Empirical Extension of Loïc Wacquant's Theorization “从犹太人聚居区到居住工厂”意大利罗姆人营地：Loïc瓦昆特理论化的经验延伸

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-03-10 Epub Date: 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70009

Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo

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CLASS, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP: Affluent Informal Settlements and the Cultural Production of Property in Delhi 阶级、产权和公民身份：德里富裕的非正式定居点和财产的文化生产

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-03-10 Epub Date: 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70002

Vivek Mishra

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PLOTTING NEW MIDDLE-CLASS ASPIRATIONS: ‘Outlaw’ Builders of Market-rate Affordable Homes in Chennai's Agrarian Urban Frontier 策划新的中产阶级抱负：金奈农业城市前沿市场价格可负担房屋的“不法”建筑商

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2026-03-10 Epub Date: 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.70014

Ramya Ramanath, K.P. Manikandan

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