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Learning to Share: Outdoor Commercial Spaces on San Francisco's Valencia Street 学会分享：旧金山巴伦西亚街的户外商业空间

Berkeley Planning Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-09 DOI: 10.5070/bp332054155

Tyler Pullen, Michael Montilla

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Decolonising Myself: Navigating the Researcher-Activist Identity in the Urban South Pacific 我自己去殖民化:在南太平洋城市中导航研究者-活动家身份

Berkeley Planning Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-09 DOI: 10.5070/bp332051330

Jennifer Day

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COVID-19 and the Future of Urban Life 2019冠状病毒病与城市生活的未来

Berkeley Planning Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-09 DOI: 10.5070/bp332058357

Meiqing Li, Pavan Yedavalli, Liubing Xie, S. Balakrishnan, Z. Lamb, K. Chapple

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How to Save Chinatown: Preserving affordability and community service through ethnic retail 如何拯救唐人街:通过民族零售保持可负担性和社区服务

Berkeley Planning Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-09 DOI: 10.5070/bp332052798

C. Chan, A. Zhou

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Transformative Practices within Mechanisms of Control: “Recognizing” Unrecognized Arab-Bedouin Villages in Israel 控制机制内的变革实践：“承认”以色列未被承认的阿拉伯贝都因村庄

Berkeley Planning Journal Pub Date : 2020-08-17 DOI: 10.5070/bp331042919

Abraham Berkowitz, Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder, Daniel E. Orenstein

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Urban Bites and Agrarian Bytes: Digital Agriculture and Extended Urbanization 城市咬伤和农业字节:数字农业和扩展城市化

Berkeley Planning Journal Pub Date : 2020-08-17 DOI: 10.5070/bp331044067

Timothy Ravis, B. Notkin

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Challenging the Urban/Rural Divide: Implications for Contemporary Planning Theory and Practice 挑战城乡差距：对当代规划理论与实践的启示

Berkeley Planning Journal Pub Date : 2020-08-17 DOI: 10.5070/bp331042884

A. Cochran

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Editors’ Note 编者注

Berkeley Planning Journal Pub Date : 2020-08-17 DOI: 10.5070/bp331049530

Yanin Kramsky, Giselle Mendonça Abreu, Priscila Coli

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Landscape Entanglements: Toward a Descriptive Project for Planning Research 景观纠葛:走向规划研究的描述性项目

Berkeley Planning Journal Pub Date : 2020-08-17 DOI: 10.5070/bp331043867

Joseph Heathcott, Kevin C. Rogan

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Feudalism in the Age of Neoliberalism: A Century of Urban and Rural Co-dependency in Lebanon 新自由主义时代的封建主义:黎巴嫩城乡相互依存的一个世纪

Berkeley Planning Journal Pub Date : 2020-08-17 DOI: 10.5070/bp331042837

Anahid Zarig Simitian

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