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Organizational governance and bridging activity places: What makes a park a travel destination across neighborhoods? 组织治理和衔接活动场所：是什么让公园成为跨社区的旅游目的地？

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261474804

Santi Furnari,Christof Brandtner,Khodr Badih

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Old age in urban discourse: The age-friendly city and the ambiguities of later life 城市话语中的老年：老年友好型城市与晚年生活的模糊性

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-09-05 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261477897

Adele Grenz, Milena von Kutzleben, Kathrin Boerner

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Sounds of Asylum Bristol: Musicking and secretly public commoning in a city of sanctuary and violence 布里斯托尔：在一个充满庇护和暴力的城市里，音乐和秘密的公共集会

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-09-05 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261480968

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti

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Parallel paths: Binary conceptions of the social in the study of motorway infrastructures 平行路径：高速公路基础设施研究中的社会二元概念

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261476524

Julian Formella

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Holding open the urban imagination 打开城市的想象

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261475829

Michele Acuto

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The military spatial complex: A framework of neoliberal urban power relations 军事空间综合体：新自由主义城市权力关系的框架

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261475597

Gabriel Schwake

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Building a circular construction economy in New York State: A multi-level perspective study of prospects for circular cities and statewide socio-technological transition 在纽约州建立循环建筑经济：循环城市和全州社会技术转型前景的多层次视角研究

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261473102

Jennifer S. Minner, Courtney Bower, Felix Heisel, Wyeth Augustine-Marceil

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Only for the big players? How small and medium-sized cities seek recognition and agency in the European Union 只对大玩家开放？中小城市如何在欧盟寻求认可和代理

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-24 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261474813

Dorothee Riese, Simon Lenhart, Benjamin Gröbe, Renate Reiter, Stephan Grohs

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Reconstruction as enclosure: The making of a propertied place in post-conflict Diyarbakır 作为圈地的重建：在冲突后建立一个有财产的地方Diyarbakır

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-19 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261475108

Fırat Genç

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Residents Welfare Associations and the economic territorialization of recyclables collection markets in the Delhi metropolitan area 居民福利协会与德里大都市区可回收物收集市场的经济属地化

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-19 DOI: 10.1177/00420980261474814

Aman Luthra

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