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World Nutrition, 2020 Background It is argued, rather controversially, that shopping malls and fast food outlets promote unhealthy foods more heavily than healthy ones.
Patience Tsrah +2 more
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CONTESTED METABOLIC NODES: Shareholding Cooperatives and Planetary Ruralization in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract China's recent shareholding cooperative (SC) reform heralds a shift from expropriation‐led rural change to a post‐expropriation regime in which the countryside is reconstituted through circulation, capitalization, and new forms of collective governance. Existing interpretations, whether framed as market‐driven de‐collectivization, state‐led re‐
Yong Zhang
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien +5 more
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Growing Shopping Malls and Behavior of Urban Shoppers [PDF]
Shopping malls contribute to business more significantly than traditional markets which were viewed as simple convergence of supply and demand. Shopping malls attract buyers and sellers, and induce customers providing enough time to make choices as well ...
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
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Shopping malls as a hybrid space [PDF]
, 2014 Public spaces understood as areas which can be accessed freely and which offer freedom of behaviour and speech have always been an important element of any city or town.
Agnieszka Rochmińska +1 more
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IFRS 16 and Lease Substitution: Evidence From Australian Listed Firms
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the economic consequences of IFRS 16 Leases for Australian listed firms, focusing on preparers' responses before adoption. Transitioning from the lease expense method to lease capitalisation significantly affected reported assets and liabilities, particularly for firms with long‐term or high‐value leases.
Sebastian Onie +2 more
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Coexistence and Conflicts between Shopping Malls and Street Markets in Growing Cities: Analysis of Shoppers’ Behavior [PDF]
Street markets in developing countries constitute an integral part of the local economy as well as exhibit ethnic image of the habitat, which continues to function also in growing cities.
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BuildingsThe growth in per capita consumption levels and the e-commerce industry have shifted the shopping mall model from a product consumption to a time-based consumption focus.
Zhengwei Zhang, Teng Fei, Kun Wang
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