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The production of extended local territory: Topology and the spatial politics of city-region making in China.

IF 4.2 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241270959

Xuan Wang, Yimin Zhao

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The bureaucratic life of urban climate resilience

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251322008

Sebastian Purwins, Markus Keck

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Justice, energy and infrastructure in the ‘greenest city in America’

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251324101

Jenna Lamphere

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Towards the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251325033

Jochen Monstadt, Francesca Pilo’, Bart AM van Gils

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Co-governance of the ‘creative city’: Bringing lived experience to the governance of culture in Sheffield

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251327125

Madeleine Pill, Jason Slade

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Book review forum: Properties of rent: Community, capital and politics in globalising Delhi PatiSushmita, Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022: ISBN: 9781316517277, Price: INR 895.

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251320019

Karen Coelho, Aditi Dey, Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Sushmita Pati

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The multiple drivers of thermal disparities in US manufactured housing

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251320852

C J Gabbe, Gregory Pierce, Matthew J Barnett, Sara Hughes

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Book review: Build: Investing in America’s Infrastructure WahbaSadek, Build: Investing in America’s Infrastructure, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024; 392 pp.: ISBN: 9781647124960, £24.00/US$29.95 (hbk); ISBN: 9781647124977, £24.00/US$29.95 (eBook)

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251327972

Saira Hafeez

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Book review: The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages DoveyKimRecioRedento B., The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024; 150 pp.: ISBN: 978-981-97-8119-5, £34.99 (hbk); ISBN: 978-981-97-8120-1, £27.99 (eBook)

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251330543

Hesam Kamalipour

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Inhabiting unsettlement: Living through building safety remediation works in England

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251321388

Jenny Preece

{"title":"Inhabiting unsettlement: Living through building safety remediation works in England","authors":"Jenny Preece","doi":"10.1177/00420980251321388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251321388","url":null,"abstract":"Internationally, a number of façade fires have highlighted significant safety problems in multi-storey residential buildings. England is an exemplar of this problem, with thousands of buildings requiring extensive remediation work to cladding systems and other areas. In many cases, this work will take place whilst homes are occupied. Although construction is an integral part of urban life, there has been little attention to the lived experience of building works. The article draws on interviews with 20 leaseholders in England affected by fire safety remediation works. The research highlights the unsettling of home as a safe, controllable, private sanctuary. First, home was disrupted by the sights and sounds of remediation work, the intrusion of noise and dirt and the shrouding of buildings in plastic sheeting. Then, workers with an orientation to the home as ‘building site’ eroded the boundaries of private space. Finally, a prolonged and unpredictable remediation process revealed the limited control of residents. The research draws attention to the neglected psychological costs of building works, revealing how a bundle of rights associated with ‘home’ are disrupted. The research has wider implications for the experience of ‘vertical’ building sites and the repair and retrofit of multi-storey buildings. Rather than a technical problem associated with building materials and construction, such work must draw on an understanding of home, foregrounding the experiences of residents.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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