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Densification by commodification: Comparing the production of housing in the Gauteng City-Region and Alpine Rhine Valley 商品化带来的高密度化：豪登省城市地区与阿尔卑斯莱茵河流域住房生产的比较

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251351249

Johannes Herburger, Lindsay Blair Howe

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Authoritarian neoliberalism, urban peripheries and the rise of the extreme right in Brazil 专制的新自由主义、城市边缘和巴西极右翼的崛起

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251345749

Leonardo Fontes

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Overcoming hyper-localism: How global corporate landlords shape their own opposition 克服超地方主义：全球企业房东如何塑造自己的反对意见

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251344048

Lisa Vollmer

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Community politics in urban regeneration under authoritarian entrepreneurial governance 威权企业家治理下城市更新中的社区政治

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251345701

Ebru Kurt-Özman, Tuna Tasan-Kok

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Corporate landlords in Latin America: Notes to an ongoing debate 拉丁美洲的公司房东：一场正在进行的辩论的注释

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251351199

Ivana Socoloff

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The relative importance of greening in attracting gentrifiers to urban Vancouver and suburban Calgary neighbourhoods 绿化在吸引中产阶级到温哥华市区和卡尔加里郊区社区的相对重要性

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251344904

Jessica Quinton, Lorien Nesbitt, James John Timothy Connolly, Elvin Wyly

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Urban transport as a social construct: Reimagining transport’s role in urban studies 城市交通作为一种社会建构：重新构想交通在城市研究中的角色

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251345704

Yingling Fan, Astrid Wood, Evelyn A Blumenberg

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Housing struggles challenging racial capitalism: The politics of the No Evictions Network in Glasgow 住房斗争挑战种族资本主义：格拉斯哥无驱逐网络的政治

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251335617

Ana Santamarina, Lazaros Karaliotas

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Resisting desperation for development: The power of community-based disruption in rewriting the culture of public–private redevelopment 抵制对发展的绝望：以社区为基础的破坏在改写公私重建文化中的力量

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251342521

Meghan Z Gough, Kathryn Howell

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Corrigendum to Under the paving stones at the Bloordale Beach: sub-terra urbs nullius and volumetric colonialism in Toronto 《在布洛代尔海滩的铺路石下：多伦多的地下城市和体量殖民主义》的勘误表

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251352329

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