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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
wiley   +1 more source

Do it right the first time; implementation of three-dimensional technology for bone defect reconstruction in upper extremity surgery. [PDF]

J Hand Microsurg
Esmati H, de Jong T, Jochem KY, Stirler VMA, van Doremalen RFM, Rakhorst HA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation. [PDF]

J Peace Res
Fubara M.
europepmc   +1 more source

CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

Gender equity and emotional labour in the workplace: an ethnographic study. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Isirabahenda G, Marina L, Nicolae Mucea B.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanisms for agricultural companies in enabling smallholders' integration into modern agriculture. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Chen Y, Zhang H, Lu Y, Song Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

CLAIMING SOCIAL HOUSING FUTURES: Value, Risk and the Temporal Politics of Income Strip Financing in London

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip ...
Aretousa Bloom, Joe Penny
wiley   +1 more source

Respiratory syncytial virus prophylaxis for children in Africa: Challenges, opportunities and public health strategies. [PDF]

J Public Health Afr
Chigiya PT.
europepmc   +1 more source