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The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents 房屋和土地使用权的作用在塑造机遇和挑战的人造房屋居民

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251345005

Rachel Siegel, Seva Rodnyansky

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Housing affordability and rent control: The case of elderly renters 住房负担能力和租金控制：以老年租房者为例

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251359191

Xun Bian, Ruoyu Chen, Hanchen Jiang

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Locked in a data imperative? French local businesses faced with Google Maps 被数据限制住了？法国当地企业面临谷歌地图

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251355479

Antoine Courmont

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Feeling metropolitan: A framework for place attachment in metropolitan regions 都市感觉：都市地区地域依恋的框架

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251355878

Mariona Tomàs

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From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’ 从控制室到谷歌总部：“创新需要一个地方”

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251357551

Sharon Zukin

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Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google’s data centre development 后政治乌云：b谷歌数据中心开发暂停失败

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-17 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251355132

Constance Carr, Karinne Madron

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Forging a global union against rentier exploitation: A commentary on tenant internationalism 建立一个反对食利者剥削的全球联盟：对房客国际主义的评论

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-16 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251351208

Marta Ill-Raga

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Neighbourhoods against global corporate landlords 社区对抗全球企业房东

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-16 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251351247

Lorenzo Vidal

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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

IF 4.7 1区经济学

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

IF 4.7 1区经济学

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

Leonardo Fontes

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