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Small is beautiful? Making sense of ‘shrinking’ homes 小即是美？了解 "缩小 "的住宅

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241249049

Phil Hubbard

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Places to be young: The dispossession of public space in Old Havana 年轻的地方哈瓦那老城的公共空间被剥夺

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241249421

Joanna Kocsis

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Reimagining the urban through agency as healing justice: Stories from Kolkata and Chicago 通过作为治愈正义的机构重新想象城市：来自加尔各答和芝加哥的故事

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241249070

Ritwika Biswas, Elizabeth L. Sweet

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Smaller cities as sites of youth migrant incorporation 作为青年移民融入地的小城市

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241237416

Mukta Naik

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Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities 绘制印度城市的宗教、空间和经济成果图

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241246512

Sripad Motiram, Vamsi Vakulabharanam

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Why mixed communities regeneration fails to improve the lives of low-income young people 混合社区改造为何无法改善低收入年轻人的生活

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241248965

Rana Khazbak

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‘I leave the everyday behind, everyday’: Sounds and spaces of the revanchist middle classes in Berlin’s Fünf Morgen Dahlem Urban village 我把日常抛在脑后，每天如此"：柏林 "Fünf Morgen Dahlem "城中村中产阶级的声音与空间

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241249061

Christy Kulz

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Book review: The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods 书评：Routledge 城市设计研究方法手册

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241242379

Tim G Townshend

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Book review: Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa 书评：粮食主权与城市农业：南非的概念、政治与实践

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241249663

Eirene Tentua, Zahrotul Firdaus

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Infrastructural politics: A conceptual mapping and critical review 基础设施政治：概念映射与批判性评论

IF 4.7 1区经济学

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241246206

León Felipe Téllez Contreras

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