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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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"Kinlessness", friend and family support, and cognitive function by region and urbanicity in the United States. [PDF]

Health Place
Mair CA, Liu J, Anderson R.
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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Editorial: Greening urban spaces and human health, volume III. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Akpınar A, Li Y, Li D.
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“These are not isolated cases!” Police work, racism, and spatial production: Review of Svenja Keitzel (2024): Folgenreiche Begegnungen mit der Polizei: Rassistische Verhältnisse raumtheoretisch untersucht. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.

Die Rezension beleuchtet Svenja Keitzels Monografie Folgenreiche Begegnungen mit der Polizei: Rassistische Verhältnisse raumtheoretisch untersucht, die rassistische Differenzierungen in polizeilichen Praktiken mitsamt ihrer räumlichen Dimension ...
Barwick-Gross, Christine, Schmiz, Antonie   +1 more
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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Variations in Sexual Size Dimorphism in Two Anurans Along an Urbanization Gradient in Shanghai: Assessment of Rensch's Rule. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Li B, Liu N, Zhong S, Wang T, Zheng R, Song Q, Wang Z, Zhang W.   +7 more
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THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF ANGOLA'S REAL ESTATE FRONTIER: How Private‐led Housing Developments are Reshaping the Outskirts of Luanda

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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Prediction and layout optimization of older adult(s) care facilities based on POI data, machine learning, and space syntax. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Lei Y, Tian J, Wang C, Hu J.
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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
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