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Beyond the professional–local knowledge dichotomy: Toward a new epistemology in urban planning 超越专业-地方知识二分法：迈向城市规划的新认识论

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251375771

Jesse Fox, Talia Margalit

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The flammable city: Infrastructure, temporalities, and social struggles in Dock Sud, Buenos Aires 易燃的城市：布宜诺斯艾利斯南码头的基础设施、临时性和社会斗争

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251371824

Simone Vegliò

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Railyard reuse and spatial justice: Environmental and socio-economic impacts of infrastructural removal and intensification in Chicago 铁路站场再利用和空间正义：芝加哥基础设施拆除和强化对环境和社会经济的影响

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251372706

Wataru Morioka, Julie Cidell

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Effects of urban rail transit expansion on the mobility of the elderly: Findings from Singapore 城市轨道交通扩张对老年人流动性的影响：来自新加坡的研究结果

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251359852

Yi Zhu, Mi Diao

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Patch urbanism: Towards an integrated theoretical framework for examining spatial and temporal dynamics in the Asian rice belt 斑块城市化：亚洲水稻带时空动态研究的综合理论框架

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-28 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251360920

Scott Hawken, Christian Isendahl

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Towards addressing transportation planning’s contradictions: The unified theory for transportation planning based on the capabilities approach 解决交通规划的矛盾：基于能力方法的交通规划统一理论

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-28 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251367648

Matthias Sweet

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Young adulthood and the city: Exploring the micro-foundations of youthification 青年与城市：探索青年化的微观基础

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-28 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251369343

Guy Shani, Eyal Bar-Haim

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Sovereign spectacles: Absolutism and architecture in the urban development of Brunei 主权景观：文莱城市发展中的专制主义和建筑

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251365182

Mu’izz Abdul Khalid, Hafizah Nor

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Disrupted spaces, adaptive lives: Unequal impacts of Hanoi’s first urban railway lines 中断的空间，适应的生活：河内第一条城市铁路线的不平等影响

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251363750

Michelle Kee, Sarah Turner

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Google, a major stakeholder in local governance? b谷歌是地方治理的主要利益相关者？

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251359974

Antoine Courmont, Burcu Baykurt

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