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A ‘gentrification regime’ change: The fiscal roots of buy-to-let gentrification in Dudelange, Luxembourg “高档化制度”的改变：卢森堡杜德兰格市购买出租高档化的财政根源

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241303626

Mădălina Mezaroş, Antoine Paccoud, Loretta Lees

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Calculative infrastructures of net zero urban governance: A transformative science-based agenda or reductive territorial project? 净零城市治理的计算基础设施：一个基于科学的变革性议程还是缩小的领土项目？

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241298095

Taylor Davey

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The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation 无止境的走廊：对城市走廊化的政治、逻辑和社会技术的批判方法

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241301641

Fatima Tassadiq, Jonathan Silver, Yannis Kallianos, Prince K Guma

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Striking back with the law: Legal struggles against corporate landlords in Barcelona and Berlin 以法律反击：巴塞罗那和柏林针对公司房东的法律斗争

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241300417

Gabriele D’Adda, Joanna Kusiak

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Cleaning up Los Angeles: The construction and non-resolution of a sanitation infrastructure crisis 清理洛杉矶：卫生基础设施危机的建设和未解决

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241301664

Ana Muniz

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The spectre of growth in urban transformations: Insights from two Doughnut-oriented municipalities on the negotiation of local development pathways 城市转型中的增长幽灵：来自两个以甜甜圈为导向的城市对地方发展道路谈判的见解

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241305322

Benedikt Schmid

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Cities under state capitalism 国家资本主义下的城市

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241303832

Gertjan Wijburg, Richard Waldron

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Upzoning and gentrification: Heterogeneous impacts of neighbourhood-level upzoning in New York City 升级与中产阶级化：纽约社区升级的异质影响

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241298199

Minjee Kim, Hyojung Lee

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On measuring Muslim segregation in urban India 关于衡量印度城市穆斯林隔离情况

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241296998

Arpit Shah, Anish Sugathan, Naveen Bharathi, Andaleeb Rahman, Amit Garg, Deepak Malghan

{"title":"On measuring Muslim segregation in urban India","authors":"Arpit Shah, Anish Sugathan, Naveen Bharathi, Andaleeb Rahman, Amit Garg, Deepak Malghan","doi":"10.1177/00420980241296998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241296998","url":null,"abstract":"The spatial segregation of Muslims in urban India is central to their social, economic and political marginalisation. However, the quantitative characterisation of Muslim segregation has suffered from the lack of readily available demographic data at high spatial and temporal resolution. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of accurately quantifying Muslim segregation in urban India using the latest electoral rolls data from Bengaluru (a megapolis of over 13 million residents) and an improved open-source algorithm to identify Muslim names. Our approach provides significant improvements over past efforts in this regard. We introduce two new metrics (diversity and local divergence) to account for substantial intra-city variation in the spatial segregation of Muslims. Our analysis suggests that the threefold ghetto–enclave–mixed taxonomy that the extant literature has quantified for entire towns can be found within large urban agglomerations such as Bengaluru. Our quantitative framework for Muslim segregation helps uncover the complex relationship between segregation and the ghettoisation of Muslims in urban India. Our measurement framework uses publicly available data and can be applied to study segregation patterns across urban India.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869840","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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(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany （重新）在国家层面定义智慧城市？德国城市可持续性治理的共存叙事

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241295935

Leonie Büttner, Nele Kress

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