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Metropolis, monarchy and the masses: Anti-royalism in Thailand's contemporary urban spaces 都市、君主制与大众：泰国当代城市空间中的反保皇派

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251355152

Khorapin Phuaphansawat

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Township economics: How the market structure of the informal economy impacts the recirculation of secondhand tires in South Africa 乡镇经济：南非非正规经济的市场结构如何影响二手轮胎的再流通

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251360868

Nik Theodore, Phillip Frederick Blaauw, Catherina Schenck

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City diplomacy and high export values: Evidence from US metro areas 城市外交与高出口价值：来自美国都市区的证据

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251359124

Mary Alice Haddad, Jennifer S Rose, Rishi Veer Bhagat

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Digital cities and their commercial aesthetics: The celebration of monarchy in Bangkok 数字城市及其商业美学：曼谷对君主制的庆祝

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251363790

Bronwyn Isaacs

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Mobility practices and the social construction of urban centralities in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Bogotá (Colombia) 贝洛奥里藏特（巴西）和波哥大<e:1>（哥伦比亚）城市中心的流动性实践和社会建设

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251362648

Eugênia Viana Cerqueira, Ana Marcela Ardila Pinto, Natalia Villamizar-Duarte, Daniela Antunes Lessa, César A. Ruiz

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My city or my planet? Rethinking the EU cultural policy toward planetary heritage and planetary senses of belonging 我的城市还是我的星球？重新思考欧盟对地球遗产和地球归属感的文化政策

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251359563

Ana Aceska

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Measuring city relationship strength beyond total counts: A multidimensional framework for distinguishing prominence from interdependence and significance 超越总数衡量城市关系强度：区分突出性与相互依赖性和重要性的多维框架

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251356683

Wang Tongjing

{"title":"Measuring city relationship strength beyond total counts: A multidimensional framework for distinguishing prominence from interdependence and significance","authors":"Wang Tongjing","doi":"10.1177/00420980251356683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251356683","url":null,"abstract":"Relying on counting the number of interactions to gauge city relationship strength can be misleading, as volumes often only reflect the prominence of large cities rather than city interdependence. Drawing on statistical concepts of effect size and confidence, this study develops a relationship classification framework that identifies interdependent and statistically significant relationships. For demonstration, this framework is applied to placename co-occurrences in English Wikipedia articles for 100 European cities. Each city relationship is evaluated through five metrics: co-occurrence, mutual information, statistical confidence, a combined mutual information–confidence metric and a relative gravity model. The findings demonstrate that a high co-occurrence, commonly observed between large cities like London and Paris, typically corresponds with high statistical confidence, but does not necessarily imply strong interdependence. By contrast, strongly interdependent relationships tend to be regionally clustered, such as the Dutch Randstad (Amsterdam–Rotterdam–The Hague), the Flemish Diamond (Brussels–Antwerp–Gent) and the Ruhr region (Dusseldorf–Essen–Duisburg). By differentiating relationship types, this framework reveals the complexity of intercity relationships and regional patterns that conventional methods fail to capture, offering a more nuanced understanding of city networks.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144930279","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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Estrangement, embodiment and entanglement: Putting agonistic planning into practice through Urban Drama Labs 疏离、具体化与纠缠：城市戏剧实验室将对抗规划付诸实践

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251361315

Cecilie Sachs Olsen, Krzysztof Janas, Lisa De Roeck, Barbara Koole, Cato Janssen, Merlijn van Hulst, Celine Motzfeldt Loades

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A multi-faceted concept of safety in the public transport system: The case of Gran Valparaiso in Chile 公共交通系统中多方面的安全概念：以智利大瓦尔帕莱索为例

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251359941

Claudio Fuentes, Carolina Busco, Felipe González, Francisca Carril

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Embodied infrastructures and the spatial imagination of mobilities: ‘Following’ street waste-picker bodies within and among critical urban waste networks of Johannesburg 具体的基础设施和移动的空间想象：在约翰内斯堡的关键城市垃圾网络内部和之间“跟随”街头拾荒者

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251358155

Johnathan Goeiman

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