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Google urbanism 2010–2020: From infrastructural control to growing bit by bit 2010-2020年城市化：从基础设施控制到逐步发展

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251328927

Burcu Baykurt

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Building back better through urban blue and green space? A critical review of post-pandemic urban planning and climate governance 通过城市蓝绿空间更好地重建家园？对大流行后城市规划和气候治理的批判性审查

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251332518

Creighton Connolly, Andrew Kythreotis

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Anticipatory climate governance: Limits to current practices in Montreal 前瞻性气候治理：蒙特利尔当前实践的局限性

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251332512

Hélène Madénian, Sophie L Van Neste, Alexis Guillemard

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Turning the wheel on active transportation: Shifts in policymaking and planning for cycling and pedestrian infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic in large urban areas 转向主动交通：2019冠状病毒病大流行期间大城市自行车和行人基础设施的政策制定和规划转变

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251330517

Remington Latanville, Raktim Mitra

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Culture goes East: Mapping the shifting geographies of urban cultural capital through major cultural buildings. 文化向东：通过主要文化建筑绘制城市文化资本的地理变化。

IF 4.2 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241289846

David Gogishvili, Martin Müller

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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

IF 4.7 1区经济学

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

IF 4.7 1区经济学

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

IF 4.7 1区经济学

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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