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Understanding age-friendly communities: Five global typologies of older adults 了解老年人友好型社区：老年人的五种全球类型

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261437909

Jeroen Dikken, Michele Bertani, Daniel Pavlovski, Loredana Ivan, Jan K. Kazak, Jolanta M. Perek-Białas, Helen Barrie, Zülfünaz Özer, Liat Ayalon, Willeke H. van Staalduinen, Joost van Hoof

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Historical redlining, locally unwanted land uses, and neighborhood mental health: Investigating the mediating effect in Chicago, Illinois 历史上的红线，当地不受欢迎的土地使用和社区心理健康：调查伊利诺伊州芝加哥市的中介效应

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261440823

Liang Chen, Maria M. Conroy, Bruce C. Mitchell, Helen C.S. Meier

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Mindsets and actions: Shifts in equitable and sustainable development in U.S. cities 心态与行动：美国城市公平与可持续发展的转变

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261438717

Helen Pineo, Rebecca Morley, Rachel Berney

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Is the city centre synonymous with (non-)cooperative innovation? Innovation in Knowledge -Intensive Services through intra-metropolitan space of Mexico City 市中心是（非）合作创新的同义词吗？基于墨西哥城都市空间的知识密集型服务业创新

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-20 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261438714

Luis Enrique Santiago, Alejandro Sánchez Zárate

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“We are the state”: Does crisis activate urban citizenship? “我们就是国家”：危机是否激活了城市公民身份？

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-16 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261436333

Noam Brenner, Ayala Peretz Benhaiem

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From fragmentation to framework: Negotiating urban definitions 从碎片化到框架化：协商城市定义

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-16 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261440352

Céline Van Migerode, Ate Poorthuis, Ben Derudder

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Reflections through land and property on settler-Indigenous urban relations 透过土地与财产对移民与原住民城市关系的思考

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-16 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261432934

R. Ben Fawcett, Ryan Walker

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Dialectics of informality in the smart city: Between antagonism and interdependence 智慧城市非正式性的辩证法：在对抗与相互依赖之间

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-16 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261435846

Somdeep Sen, Jacob Rasmussen, Wangui Kimari

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Modifying to commodify: How financial intent shapes urban streetscapes in Zurich 从改造到商品化：金融意图如何塑造苏黎世的城市街景

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261436200

Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum

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Locating injustice: How accessibility and land-use policy shape the spatial distribution of logistics warehouses in Fortaleza, Brazil 定位不公正：可达性和土地使用政策如何塑造巴西福塔莱萨物流仓库的空间分布

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261435309

Carlos David Pedrosa Pinheiro, Jesus Gonzalez Feliu, Bruno Vieira Bertoncini

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