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Urban solidarities in late modern times: Interspaces for meaningful engagement in Los Angeles and Amsterdam 现代晚期的城市团结：洛杉矶和阿姆斯特丹有意义的互动空间

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251329271

Elena Ponzoni, Tara Rose Fiorito, Halleh Ghorashi

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The urban water–energy nexus in Cape Town, Los Angeles and Maputo: The ambivalent role of cross-sector coordination for urban sustainability 开普敦、洛杉矶和马普托的城市水能关系：城市可持续性跨部门协调的矛盾作用

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251328292

Shaun Smith

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Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok 看得见的存在，看不见的手：重塑曼谷的皇室和现实

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251330797

Michael Herzfeld

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Waze seating in the control room: Enacting the data bricolage in urban traffic management in Santiago de Chile 控制室中的Waze座椅：在智利圣地亚哥城市交通管理中实施数据拼接

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251329241

Ignacio Pérez Karich

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The post-COVID-19 flattening phenomenon of regional housing prices in the UK 英国地区房价在新冠肺炎疫情后趋于平缓的现象

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251327998

I-Chun Tsai

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Pushed and pulled: How race shapes the displacement of Black-owned businesses during commercial gentrification 推与拉：种族如何在商业中产阶级化过程中塑造黑人拥有的企业的位移

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251328610

Saran Nurse

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Beyond residential and extra-local spaces: Gun violence exposure in urban neighbourhood mobility networks 超越住宅和本地以外的空间：城市街区流动网络中的枪支暴力风险

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251325142

Noli Brazil

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The new dwellers of southern cities: Social diversification and uncertainty in Santiago inner city 南方城市的新居民：圣地亚哥内城的社会多样化和不确定性

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251320567

Isabel Brain

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Depoliticised environmental policies: Low-carbon action in the Paris urban region 非政治化的环境政策：巴黎市区的低碳行动

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251324112

Olivier Coutard, Caroline Gallez

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The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches 非自由主义下的城市问题？三个专题方法

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251327142

Jason D Luger, Miklós János Dürr

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