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“Cleaning” Exarchia: Gentrification, Racialization, and Criminalization of Dissent in a Central Athenian Neighborhood

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-03-12 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70029

Georgina Christou

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Walking With SAGE Clan Patrol: Practicing Empathy in the Indigenous Urban Landscape 与SAGE部落巡逻队同行：在本土城市景观中实践同理心

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70028

Amy Cran, Patrick C. Wilson, Mark Brave Rock

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Acknowledging the 2025 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology 承认2025年安东尼·利兹城市人类学奖

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70027

Bruce O'Neill

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“It Will Get Crowded, It Will Get Dull!”: Preventive Sensations of Density in Zurich's Future-Making “它会变得拥挤，会变得枯燥！”：苏黎世未来建设中的预防性密度感

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70026

Sabrina Stallone

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Street Atmospheres: Photographing Worlds-in-the-Making in Jakarta 街头氛围：在雅加达拍摄正在形成的世界

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70025

Brent Luvaas

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Learning Through Unhoming. Extended Squatting Time and Agentic Homemaking After Squatting in Rome 通过不归路学习。罗马人蹲地时间的延长和蹲地后的自主家政

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-01-10 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70023

Chiara Cacciotti

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Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States. Alexis Lerner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025, 237 pp. 后苏联涂鸦：专制国家的言论自由。亚历克西斯·勒纳。多伦多：多伦多大学出版社，2025,237页。

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City & Society Pub Date : 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70021

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Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. Chloe Ahmann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024, 336 pp. 进步后的未来：巴尔的摩工业晚期的希望与怀疑。克洛伊Ahmann。芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社，2024,336页。

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City & Society Pub Date : 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70020

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The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization. Jonathan Silver, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2023, 330 pp. 南方基础设施：第三次城市化浪潮的技术环境。乔纳森·西尔弗，剑桥：麻省理工学院出版社，2023年，330页。

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City & Society Pub Date : 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70022

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Occupied Futures: Co-Design, Repair, and the Struggle for Housing in Cape Town 被占领的未来：共同设计、维修和为开普敦住房而斗争

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City & Society Pub Date : 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70019

Laurin Baumgardt

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