Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato +2 more
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Association of Racial Residential Segregation and Other Social Determinants of Health with HIV Late Presentation. [PDF]
Shi F +7 more
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Abstract Why do some informal neighborhoods receive public investment while others are neglected or evicted? This article addresses the inconsistent governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the democratic period. State actions range from violent evictions to tolerance and community‐led improvements.
Kadek Wara Urwasi
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Racial-Ethnic Residential Segregation and Sleep Health among US Adults: Associations by Race and Ethnicity, Sex/Gender, and Neighborhood-Level Poverty. [PDF]
Gaston SA +5 more
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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris +2 more
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Residential Segregation and Lung Cancer Risk in African American Adults.
Xiao Y +14 more
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Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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Ride-hailing technology mitigates effects of driver racial discrimination, but effects of residential segregation persist. [PDF]
Cobb A +4 more
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Is Income and Racial Residential Segregation Associated with 13-Year Changes in Body Mass Index? A Longitudinal Analysis in the Brazilian Pró-Saúde Cohort Study. [PDF]
Guimarães JMN +3 more
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