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Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’ for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia by Veen, Alex, Barratt, Tom, Goods, Caleb

“…This qualitative case study adopts a labour process analysis to unpack the distinctive features of capital’s control regimes in the food-delivery segment of…”
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Green gentrification or ‘just green enough’: Do park location, size and function affect whether a place gentrifies or not? by Rigolon, Alessandro, Németh, Jeremy

“…Recent research shows that the establishment of new parks in historically disinvested neighbourhoods can result in housing price increases and the displacement…”
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The evolutionary dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems by Mack, Elizabeth, Mayer, Heike

“…Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE) consist of interacting components, which foster new firm formation and associated regional entrepreneurial activities. Current…”
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Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy by Wood, Alex J, Graham, Mark, Lehdonvirta, Vili, Hjorth, Isis

“…This article investigates the (dis)embeddedness of digital labour within the remote gig economy. We use interview and survey data to highlight how platform…”
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Towards an Ethical Framework for Publishing Twitter Data in Social Research: Taking into Account Users’ Views, Online Context and Algorithmic Estimation by Williams, Matthew L, Burnap, Pete, Sloan, Luke

“…New and emerging forms of data, including posts harvested from social media sites such as Twitter, have become part of the sociologist’s data diet. In…”
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Platform economies and urban planning: Airbnb and regulated deregulation in London by Ferreri, Mara, Sanyal, Romola

“…The ‘sharing economy’ has become a new buzzword in urban life as digital technology companies set up online platforms to link together people and un- or…”
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Machine learning, social learning and the governance of self-driving cars by Stilgoe, Jack

“…Self-driving cars, a quintessentially ‘smart’ technology, are not born smart. The algorithms that control their movements are learning as the technology…”
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The financialisation of rental housing: A comparative analysis of New York City and Berlin by Fields, Desiree, Uffer, Sabina

“…This paper compares how recent waves of private equity real estate investment have reshaped the rental housing markets in New York and Berlin. Through…”
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Stretching the concept of 'borrowed size' by Meijers, Evert J, Burger, Martijn J

“…'Borrowed size' is an emerging policy concept in several European countries, presenting theoretical potential to explain contemporary urban dynamics…”
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From sustainable urbanism to climate urbanism by Long, Joshua, Rice, Jennifer L

“…As the negative impacts of climate change become increasingly apparent, many city leaders and policymakers have begun to regard climate action as both a fiscal…”
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Toxic politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world by Liboiron, Max, Tironi, Manuel, Calvillo, Nerea

“…Toxicity has become a ubiquitous, if uneven, condition. Toxicity can allow us to focus on how forms of life and their constituent relations, from the scale of…”
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Developing a critical understanding of smart urbanism? by Luque-Ayala, Andrés, Marvin, Simon

“…Smart urbanism is emerging at the intersection of visions for the future of urban places, new technologies and infrastructures. Smart urbanism discourses are…”
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Touristification, transnational gentrification and urban change in Lisbon: The neighbourhood of Alfama by Sequera, Jorge, Nofre, Jordi

“…The Great Recession (2008–2014) and the consequent crises in both the national financial and production systems have led the Portuguese administration to adopt…”
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Rent gap reloaded: Airbnb and the shift from residential to touristic rental housing in the Palma Old Quarter in Mallorca, Spain by Yrigoy, Ismael

“…In light of the advent of Airbnb, rent gap theory can be helpful for understanding how tourist rentals affect residential rental housing. It is argued that on…”
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Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy by Wood, Alex J, Graham, Mark, Lehdonvirta, Vili, Hjorth, Isis

“…This article evaluates the job quality of work in the remote gig economy. Such work consists of the remote provision of a wide variety of digital services…”
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Is compact city livable? The impact of compact versus sprawled neighbourhoods on neighbourhood satisfaction by Mouratidis, Kostas

“…Low-density urban forms are often considered more livable than compact ones. Yet, studies investigating the relationship between compact cities and livability…”
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Determinants of urban sprawl in European cities by Oueslati, Walid, Alvanides, Seraphim, Garrod, Guy

“…This paper provides empirical evidence that helps to answer several key questions relating to the extent of urban sprawl in Europe. Building on the monocentric…”
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Circular cities by Williams, Joanna

“…A circular approach to the way in which we manage the resources consumed and produced in cities – materials, energy, water and land – will significantly reduce…”
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Neighbourhood effects and beyond: Explaining the paradoxes of inequality in the changing American metropolis by Sampson, Robert J

“…American cities today are simultaneously the same and different from Wilson’s classic portrayal in The Truly Disadvantaged ([1987] 2012), first published over…”
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Settlement scaling theory: Bridging the study of ancient and contemporary urban systems by Lobo, Jose, Bettencourt, Luis MA, Smith, Michael E, Ortman, Scott

“…A general explanatory framework for the social processes underpinning urbanisation should account for empirical regularities that are shared among contemporary…”
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