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Leveraging the collective: Contesting California’s corporate landlords through multibuilding organising 利用集体：通过多建筑组织来争夺加州的公司房东

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251324160

Mathilde Lind Gustavussen

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Views from above: The continued discrimination of domestic workers living in the apartment blocks of Northern Johannesburg 俯瞰：居住在约翰内斯堡北部公寓大楼的家庭佣工持续受到歧视

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251322010

Annabel Fenton, Jennifer Fitchett

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The production of extended local territory: Topology and the spatial politics of city-region making in China. 扩展地域的生产：中国城市区域制造的拓扑学与空间政治。

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 城市气候适应能力的官僚生活

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’ “美国最绿色城市”的司法、能源和基础设施

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 迈向下一代城市供暖系统？管理阿姆斯特丹的多基础设施解决方案

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 “创意城市”的共同治理：为谢菲尔德的文化治理带来生活经验

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. 书评论坛：租金属性：全球化德里的社区，资本和政治PatiSushmita，租金属性：全球化德里的社区，资本和政治，剑桥：剑桥大学出版社，2022:ISBN: 9781316517277，价格：INR 895。

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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 美国制造住房热差异的多重驱动因素

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) 书评：《建设：投资美国基础设施》WahbaSadek著，《建设：投资美国基础设施》，华盛顿特区：乔治城大学出版社，2024年；392页：ISBN: 9781647124960, 24.00英镑/ 29.95美元（hbk）；ISBN: 9781647124977, 24.00英镑/ 29.95美元（电子书）

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

Saira Hafeez

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