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The unequal spread of digital neighbourhood platforms in urban neighbourhoods: A multilevel analysis of socio-demographic predictors and their relation to neighbourhood social capital 数字邻里平台在城市邻里中的不平等传播：社会人口预测因素及其与邻里社会资本关系的多层次分析

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241286266

Dietrich Oberwittler, Lisa Natter

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Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai 行政模糊化的日常实践与消除模糊化的劳动：为孟买的水利基础设施而奋斗

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241283731

Purva Dewoolkar, Deljana Iossifova, Sitaram Shelar, Alison L Browne, Elsa Holm

{"title":"Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai","authors":"Purva Dewoolkar, Deljana Iossifova, Sitaram Shelar, Alison L Browne, Elsa Holm","doi":"10.1177/00420980241283731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241283731","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we use the notion of administrative precarity to refer to the vulnerability and insecurity experienced by marginalised and disadvantaged groups as a result of their interactions with ambiguous administrative procedures. Using the example of water infrastructure administration in Mumbai, specifically the experiences of ‘Pani Haq Samiti’– the ‘Right to Water campaign’– we formulate how administrative precarity and infrastructural violence intersect in transcalar practices of ambiguation in urban governance. We build on a nascent set of literature that illustrates how ambiguity in administrative processes is used as a tactic to avoid or deny the impacts of bureaucratic process of water and sanitation governance in Mumbai. We work through several examples of the ambiguous practices and paperwork involved in implementing the universal right to water in urban Mumbai with a specific focus on the challenges in non-notified slums. We demonstrate that the practices of ambiguation, are often entrenched in everyday interactions between citizens or activists and administrators on the ground. In enabling the continued withholding of water infrastructure these ambiguous bureaucracies create an administrative precarity and are thus constitutive to persistent infrastructural violence against marginalised groups. We show that everyday practices of activists and administrators provoke the labours of de-ambiguation as a pre-requisite to the implementation of infrastructural solutions to achieve the ‘Right to Water’ under administrative precarity. We call for more research on everyday practices of (de-)ambiguation, including highlighting the potentially transformative role that urban scholarship may take to support the labour of de-ambiguation.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142596752","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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Heat and the city: Thermal control, governance and health in urban Asia 热与城市：亚洲城市的热控、治理与健康

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241286718

Gregory Clancey, Jiat-Hwee Chang, Liz PY Chee

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Are urban labour markets more dynamic? Vacancies and urban scaling 城市劳动力市场是否更具活力？职位空缺和城市规模

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241280887

Harm-Jan Rouwendal, Jan Rouwendal

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Amenities and housing market dynamics: Implications for population change, urban attractiveness, innovation, and productivity 便利设施和住房市场动态：对人口变化、城市吸引力、创新和生产力的影响

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241284480

Chris Leishman, Satyam Goel

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Fixing motorisation: The logics of infrastructure solutionism in Bengaluru 解决机动化问题：班加罗尔的基础设施解决方案逻辑

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241282591

Sreelakshmi Ramachandran, Apoorva Rathod, Jacob Baby, Yogi Joseph, Govind Gopakumar

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The new private urban governance: Vestiges, ventures and visibility 新的私营城市管理：遗迹、企业和能见度

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241286305

Randy K Lippert, Debra Mackinnon, Stefan Treffers

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The implications of digital school quality information for neighbourhood and school segregation: Evidence from a natural experiment in Los Angeles 数字学校质量信息对社区和学校隔离的影响：来自洛杉矶自然实验的证据

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241274910

Jared N Schachner, Ann Owens, Gary D Painter

{"title":"The implications of digital school quality information for neighbourhood and school segregation: Evidence from a natural experiment in Los Angeles","authors":"Jared N Schachner, Ann Owens, Gary D Painter","doi":"10.1177/00420980241274910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241274910","url":null,"abstract":"A digital information explosion has transformed cities’ residential and educational markets in ways that are still being uncovered. Although urban stratification scholars have increasingly scrutinised whether emerging digital platforms disrupt or reproduce longstanding segregation patterns, direct links between one theoretically important form of digital information – school quality data – and neighbourhood and school segregation are rarely drawn. To clarify these dynamics, we leverage an exogenous digital information shock, in which the Los Angeles Times’ website revealed measures of a particularly important school quality proxy – schools’ value-added effectiveness – for nearly all elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Results suggest that although the information shock had no detectable effects on residential sorting or neighbourhood racial segregation, it did exert modest effects on school sorting – particularly for Latino and Asian students – albeit not in ways that materially diminished school racial segregation because the racial compositions of high- and low-value-added schools were broadly similar both before and after the information shock. We conclude that the urban stratification implications of digital information may be more nuanced than often appreciated, with effects operating through mechanisms beyond residential segregation and reflecting racial heterogeneity in constraints and preferences vis-à-vis specific types of information.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142451364","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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Catalysts of connection. The role of digital information and communication technology in fostering neighbourhood social cohesion: A systematic review of empirical findings 联系的催化剂。数字信息和通信技术在促进邻里社会凝聚力方面的作用：对实证研究结果的系统回顾

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241281502

Jan Üblacker, Simon Liebig, Hawzheen Hamad

{"title":"Catalysts of connection. The role of digital information and communication technology in fostering neighbourhood social cohesion: A systematic review of empirical findings","authors":"Jan Üblacker, Simon Liebig, Hawzheen Hamad","doi":"10.1177/00420980241281502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241281502","url":null,"abstract":"Neighbourhood social cohesion is associated with a range of beneficial outcomes for residents. However, it is commonly hypothesised that neighbourhood relations face potential disruptions from digital information and communication technologies (DICT) as they are assumed to alter traditional community structures previously grounded in physical proximity. We systematically review 52 empirical studies on the relationship between DICT and neighbourhood social cohesion to determine in what ways DICT hinder or promote neighbourhood social cohesion. We found that DICT promote social cohesion by catalysing local social capital, but not for everyone and not in every neighbourhood. We propose the theoretical concept of ‘catalysts of connection’ to explain how technological affordances and online content interact with collective and individual social capital to develop various domains of social cohesion. Based on these results and our theoretical concept, we conclude that DICT exacerbate socio-spatial inequality in cities as neighbourhoods with low social capital are less likely to reap the benefits of the digital age. We provide paths for future investigations on the intersection of urban research and media and communication studies.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142448446","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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Thermal governance, urban metabolism and carbonised comfort: Air-conditioning and urbanisation in the Gulf and Doha 热管理、城市新陈代谢和碳化舒适度：海湾和多哈的空调与城市化

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241285541

Jiat-Hwee Chang

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