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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
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The hybrid cycle of facade in ec building UI to achieve building circularity

ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur
The construction sector has the potential to improve its sustainability through the application of circular economy principles, which primarily emphasize two cycles: replacing conventional materials with biological alternatives and enhancing the ...
Kwarista Dharma Smitha, Ova Candra Dewi, Miktha Farid Alkadri, Kartika Rahmasari   +3 more
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Progetti per la città compatta. Il caso di San Salvario a Torino [PDF]

, 2012
La presente ricerca nasce da una duplice esigenza. La prima, che esprime una necessità contingente, è quella legata ad un caso studio specifico, la riqualificazione e trasformazione del quartiere San Salvario a Torino.
Malcovati, Silvia
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THE CONTESTED CITY OF VENICE: Caring for Commodified Common Infrastructures in a Touristified Environment

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay I reveal contested common infrastructures in the interplay between vanishing public infrastructures in Venice and lack of care by governmental actors in a city with a shrinking number of inhabitants. I examine care and commodified public infrastructures in heritage cities facing mass tourism and climate change effects by zooming ...
Cornelia Dlabaja
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Value and doubt: the persuasive power of 'authenticity' in the antiquities market [PDF]

, 2015
No abstract ...
Yates, Donna
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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Impact of climate change on sky conditions over nearly three decades in a tropical urban environment: A simulation analysis for daylight performance in Makassar City

Results in Engineering
This study evaluates climate change impacts on daylight availability in Makassar, Indonesia, through integrated analysis of meteorological data (1995–2023) and daylight performance simulations across multiple building configurations.
Atikah Nurulfajri Baharuddin, Baharuddin Hamzah, Nurul Jamala, Rizki A. Mangkuto   +3 more
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VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu, Jonathan Cinnamon, Agnieszka Leszczynski   +2 more
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