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SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle‐class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how modern class dynamics become intertwined with automated classifications and data‐driven regimes of value creation under digital capitalism by demonstrating how housing markets shape asset inequalities and middle‐class formation in South Africa.
Julien Migozzi
wiley   +1 more source

FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Constituents and Consequences of Online-Shopping in Sustainable E-Business: An Experimental Study of Online-Shopping Malls

open access: yesSustainability, 2018
With the growth of the internet, electronic (online) business has become an important trend in the economy. This study investigates how retailers could enhance their shopping processes and hence help sustain their e-business development.
M. Ijaz, J. Rhee
semanticscholar   +1 more source

EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growing Shopping Malls and Behavior of Urban Shoppers [PDF]

open access: yes
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 ...
Rajagopal
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Socialisation, community, and shopping malls : an empirical study at Auckland's St. Lukes Mall : examining the role the mall plays for its patrons : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
With the steady growth in the number of shopping malls being constructed, and the high level of media attention they have been receiving, this exploratory study investigated the role shopping centres play for their patrons and conceptualized the findings
Farmer, Nathan Jerome
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Asymmetric Platform Oligopoly

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We propose a tractable model of asymmetric platform oligopoly with logit demand in which users from two distinct groups are subject to within‐group and cross‐group network effects and decide which platform to join. We characterize the equilibrium when platforms manage user access by setting participation fees for each user group.
Martin Peitz, Susumu Sato
wiley   +1 more source

Modern Concept of Interior Design Food Court as Rebranding Form of Sustainability Design Related to the Growth of Mall (Case Study: Delicaè, Senayan City)

open access: yesHumaniora, 2017
The purpose of this paper was to make people aware of the new concept design of the food court that influence the ambiance and related to the attractiveness factors. The method of documentation of the interior element was done by the analysis to the food
Polniwati Salim
doaj   +1 more source

Micro-Market Determinants of Neighborhood Center Rental Rate [PDF]

open access: yes
This investigation expands the limited empirical research on retail rental rates by investigating the determinants of neighborhood shopping center rents.
Marvin L. Wolverton   +1 more
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