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Cemeteries as critical social infrastructure: A comparative legal geography

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105792

Jae Page, Laurel Besco

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Gift economy as an alternative to achieve sustainable development: The case of Earthen Routes

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105796

Sanika Rohanekar

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City size distribution of African countries: A spatial analysis using geospatial data

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105808

Michael Akwasi Appiah-Kubi , Florence Akosua Gyambibi

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Balancing spatial logic and governance objectives for street vending: An optimizing model for dynamic formalization zones

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105819

Yuchen Liu , Yilun Liu , Xiaochun Chen , Chuan Lin , Zegen Zhou

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Digital innovation diffusion of local government under public crisis: An event history analysis based on the City brain

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105811

Zekun Liu , Caixin Jiang , Han Jin , Weiwen Zhang

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From grassroots cultural movements to institutionalized urban regeneration projects: The cases of La Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille) and Piccolo America (Rome) 从基层文化运动到制度化的城市复兴项目：La Friche la Belle de Mai（马赛）和 Piccolo America（罗马）的案例

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105783

Vittoria Di Grazia , Luca Tricarico , Anna Pirri Valentini

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Is the ladder green? Social mobility and residents' low-carbon behavior

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105804

Penghu Zhu , Boqiang Lin

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Voltage variations: Unraveling electric vehicle appeal in urban vs. rural areas

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105815

Elena Higueras-Castillo , Katrin Zulauf , Manuel Alonso Dos Santos , Francisco Liébana-Cabanillas , Ralf Wagner

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Social capital geospatial network mapping for furniture-making: Impacts of long-term social bonds on city fabric and industry competitiveness

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105802

Nourhan Heysham , Hisham Elkadi

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Mapping the landscape of transnational municipal networks

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105801

Pier Domenico Tortola

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