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The end of publicness in Yorubaland? Exploring the privatisation of public space in Ile-Ife, Nigeria 约鲁巴兰的公开性终结了吗？探索尼日利亚Ile-Ife的公共空间私有化

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100638

Temitope Muyiwa Adebara , Adewumi Israel Badiora , Adedotun Ayodele Dipeolu , Lateef Adeleke Adeniyi

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Let's play equal! Researching mechanisms of inequalities in the music and games sectors using the Global Production Network approach 让我们玩平等游戏吧！使用全球生产网络方法研究音乐和游戏领域的不平等机制

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100620

Olga Kolokytha , Raffaela Gmeiner , Tove Henriksson , Anna Anetta Janowska

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The public library building as nexus for social interactions: Cases from Helsinki 公共图书馆建筑作为社会互动的纽带：来自赫尔辛基的案例

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100610

Christine Mady, Hossam Hewidy

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More economic diversity, less vulnerability? The case of Quito 更多的经济多样性，更少的脆弱性？基多事件

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100622

Susana Herrero Olarte, Jeniffer Rubio, Domenica Miño

{"title":"More economic diversity, less vulnerability? The case of Quito","authors":"Susana Herrero Olarte, Jeniffer Rubio, Domenica Miño","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100622","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100622","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Economic residential segregation is the separation of social groups in different areas of a city according to their income level. Neighborhoods have their urban characteristics or attributes. Active attributes can limit or improve access to goods or services, functionalities, or capabilities required to meet citizens' needs. This article focuses on economic diversity as an active attribute. Economic diversity is understood as the number of different types and sizes of companies represented in the same territory. Traditionally, urban planning has had two main views on economic diversity within neighborhoods. On the one hand, the proposal of the “right to the city” considers that economic diversity is an active attribute that promotes residents' access to goods and services, functionalities, and capacities to escape poverty. On the other hand, for the theory of functionalism, economic diversity is an active attribute that prevents income from improving. This article explores the relationship between the economic diversity score and vulnerability, taking the city of Quito as a case study. After calculating, mapping, and establishing the relationships between the two variables by neighborhood, it is concluded that economic diversity is an active attribute of Quito due to residential segregation and can limit the income and ability of residents of marginalized communities to escape poverty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 100622"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Models for cultural development strategies and the experience of medium-sized cities in Central and Eastern Europe — A case of Poland 中东欧中等城市文化发展战略模式与经验——以波兰为例

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100621

Stefania Środa-Murawska

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What is nocturnal about night studies? Insights from Turin, Italy 什么是夜校？来自意大利都灵的见解

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100617

Enrico Petrilli , Alberto Vanolo

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Emergence and fall of the Hollywood punk scene in Los Angeles: Analysis of place-bound attributes vs translocal factors 洛杉矶好莱坞朋克场景的兴衰：地域属性与跨地域因素的分析

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100624

Sébastien Darchen

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Networked mobility and temporal spaces: Cycling as jugaad in post-pandemic Kolkata 网络化流动与时间空间：后大流行病时代加尔各答的自行车运动

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100605

Avishek Ray , Neha Gupta

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Spaces seeking activities - activities seeking spaces: Evaluation and policy design of neighbourhood-wide urban community spaces 寻求活动的空间--寻求空间的活动：街区范围内城市社区空间的评估和政策设计

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100606

Ivan Blečić , Ester Cois , Emanuel Muroni , Valeria Saiu

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Analysis of contextual factors influencing the development of unplanned settlements: The case of Herat City, Afghanistan 影响无规划住区发展的环境因素分析：阿富汗赫拉特市案例

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100607

Asadullah Hanif , Jalil Ahmad Zakiri , Shakib Mirzahi , Ghulam Mohammad Asim , Ghulam Farooq Nadeem

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