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Off-grid electricity imaginaries: Tracing urban citizenship in Cape Town’s informal settlements 离网电力的想象：追踪开普敦非正式定居点的城市公民身份

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251368672

Thandeka Tshabalala, Megan Davies, Maarten Hajer, Jesse Hoffman

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Pursuing municipal land use interests in densifying cities: How municipalities strategically apply land value capture contracting to trade-off economic value of density for other gains 在人口密集的城市中追求市政土地使用利益：市政当局如何策略性地应用土地价值获取合同来权衡密度的经济价值以获得其他收益

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251365014

Pauliina Krigsholm, Tuulia Puustinen, Heidi Falkenbach

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Extreme heat vulnerability of manufactured housing in arid urban environments 干旱城市环境中人造房屋的极端热脆弱性

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251351241

Philip Stoker, Xahria Santiago, Mark Kear

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Doing transit infrastructure otherwise: Arts in Transit , the Southwest Corridor 做交通基础设施：交通中的艺术，西南走廊

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251362086

Rebecca Heimel

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Daylife: The evolution of partner dance spaces in urban South Korea 日常生活：韩国城市中舞伴舞蹈空间的演变

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251349314

Yu-Ri Kim

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Profiling caregivers: Caregiving workload, mobility, stress, and remote work difficulties 分析照顾者：照顾工作量、移动性、压力和远程工作困难

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251361626

Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Giovanni Vecchio, Sebastian Astroza, Juan Antonio Carrasco, María Consuelo Smith Piel

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Home–neighbourhood: A material–affective infrastructure for the creative city 家-邻里：创意城市的物质-情感基础设施

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251363793

Nicole T Cook, Pauline McGuirk, Chris Gibson, Peta Wolifson, Chris Brennan-Horley, Andrew Warren

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Urbanization and social change in rural India 印度农村的城市化和社会变革

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251364677

Jan Nijman, Robbin Jan van Duijne, Chetan Choithani

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Infrastructuration and spatial governance: Why Google is not just another service provider 基础设施和空间治理：为什么谷歌不仅仅是另一个服务提供商

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251359476

Nancy Odendaal

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Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) 新自由主义危机与城市：与威权主义新自由主义城市主义的角力

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251361667

Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin

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