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From online to onsite: Wanghong economy as the new engine driving China’s urban development 从网上到现场：望洪经济成为推动中国城市发展的新引擎

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231224142

Liu Cao

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Reassembling the politics of “Green” urban redevelopment in East Garfield Park: A Polanyian approach 重新组合东加菲尔德公园 "绿色 "城市再开发的政治：波兰尼方法

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231221019

Ihnji Jon

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“Cowboy up”: Gender, labor, and workforce housing in Colorado ski country "牛仔起来"：科罗拉多滑雪之乡的性别、劳动力和劳动力住房

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231217889

Shae A. Frydenlund

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Bringing labor back: Financialized inclusion and survival struggles in the periphery of the periphery 让劳动力回归：边缘地区的金融化包容和生存斗争

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231214945

Erica Souza Siqueira, I. Fontenelle

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Becoming ‘farazat’: Re-examining feminisation from a Tunis used clothes sorting factory 成为 "法拉扎特"：从突尼斯旧衣分拣工厂重新审视女性化问题

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231217442

Katharina Grüneisl

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Rethinking job loss in an age of assetisation: Lessons from the study of precarious older workers 重新思考资产化时代的失业问题：不稳定老年工人研究的启示

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231214937

Tom Barnes

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State infrastructural power through scalar practices: On China’s decarbonization endeavors 通过规模化实践实现国家基础设施权力：论中国的去碳化努力

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231216579

Wenying Fu

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From the racialization of finance to the financing of anti-racism: Tracing the US financial industry’s investments in closing the racial wealth gap 从金融种族化到反种族主义融资：追踪美国金融业为缩小种族贫富差距所做的投资

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231212076

Emily Rosenman

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Dilemmas of 21st century land value capture: Examining Henry George’s legacy in a new Gilded Age 21 世纪土地价值获取的困境：在新镀金时代审视亨利-乔治的遗产

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231216534

L. Wolf-Powers

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Counterfactual and consilience 反事实和一致性

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231218872

Jessie Poon

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