International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 49, issue 3, 2025

REFLECTIONS ON CRITICAL URBAN STUDIES IN PERILOUS TIMES pp. 473-478

Mona Fawaz, Eduardo Marques, Nik Theodore and Liza Weinstein

EVERYDAY INFRASTRUCTURES OF URBAN LIFE pp. 479-497

Prince K. Guma

INFRASTRUCTURE AS TERRITORIAL STIGMA: Labour Migrant Exclusions in the Indian City pp. 498-513

Nabeela Ahmed

PRODUCING THE GHATS OF BANARAS AS WORLD‐CLASS SPACES: The Mobilization of Nishad Boatmen pp. 514-530

Ishan Shahi

POST‐SOCIALIST GENTRIFICATIONS: Similar, but Different pp. 531-551

Matthias Bernt and Agnieszka Ogrododwczyk

THE POLITICS OF WANGHONG CONSUMPTION: (Re)Making the Place through New Urban Aestheticisation pp. 552-568

Liu Cao

THE DENSITY DIALECTIC: Between Hard and Gentle Densification in London pp. 569-586

Victoria Habermehl and Colin McFarlane

SPATIAL PROCESSES OF HABITUS FORMATION AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN SUBURBAN STOCKHOLM pp. 587-608

Sara Forsberg, Bo Malmberg and Eva Andersson

EXPERT FIXERS: Bureaucratic Informality, Brokerage and the Politics of Land in Mumbai pp. 609-631

Sangeeta Banerji

TRADITIONAL GOVERNANCE IN THE COPRODUCTION OF URBAN RESILIENCE: Institutional Enablers and Political Constraints pp. 632-659

Alejandro Rivero‐Villar and Antonio Vieyra

SPATIALIZING WOMEN'S EVERYDAY ACCESS TO ENERGY: An Intra‐urban Comparison of the Gender Energy Nexus in Lahore, Pakistan pp. 660-681

Rihab Khalid, Hadia Majid, Rabia Saeed, Alaiba Faheem and Charlotte Lemanski

DETROIT’S FIGHTS FOR COMMUNITY BENEFITS: Exploring the Challenges and Strategies of Securing Community Benefits Agreements in a Legacy City pp. 682-707

Lisa Berglund and Jodi Miles

NEW URBAN GOVERNANCE AND THE DILEMMA OF PARTICIPATORY PLANNING IN SOUTH KOREA pp. 708-723

Se Hoon Park

NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya pp. 724-735

Mariana Reyes Carranza, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Neha Gupta, Dennis Mbugua Muthama and Jesus Flores

Volume 49, issue 2, 2025

‘MORTAL FEAST’: Cannibal Capitalism Meets Covid‐19 in the Urban Peruvian Amazon pp. 229-245

Japhy Wilson

EXPLAINING THE NATURE OF POLICY RESPONSES DURING THE PANDEMIC OUTBREAK: The Role of Geographical Characteristics pp. 246-266

Sébastien Bourdin, Mihail Eva, Corneliu Iatu, Bogdan Ibănescu, Ludovic Jeanne and Fabien Nadou

BLOOMBERG'S GLOBAL MAYORALTY: Philanthropy and the ‘Crisis of Capacity’ in City Government pp. 267-284

Tom Baker, Alistair Sisson, Pauline McGuirk, Robyn Dowling and Sophia Maalsen

ATHENS'S PHILANTHROCAPITALIST LANDSCAPE WITHIN THE CRISIS–AUSTERITY CONJUNCTURE pp. 285-303

Penny (Panagiota) Koutrolikou, Antonis Papangelopoulos and Christos Georgakopoulos

URBICIDAL ECONOMICS AND THE RACIAL GEOGRAPHIES OF TRIAGE pp. 304-321

Alexander Ferrer and Richard Kirk

URBANIZING VOLATILITY: On Recurrent Crises and the Economic Rhythms of Latin American Urbanization pp. 322-336

Felipe N.C. Magalhães

POLYCRISIS AND ‘UNNATURAL RAIN’ IN URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS OF BENGAL: The Twin Cities and Issues of Peripheral Centrality pp. 337-357

Rahul Singh

PLANNING A EUROPEAN RACIAL CITY: Dealing (with) Dread in Twenty‐first‐century Berlin pp. 358-375

Giovanni Picker

WHO CAN AFFORD TO BE HUMAN? Struggling for Affordable Housing in East London pp. 376-392

Toni Adscheid

‘THEY SUPPRESSED OUR RIGHTS WITH CONCRETE’: Politics of Exclusion and (Im)permanence in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh pp. 393-411

Samira Binte Bashar and Bjørn Sletto

‘FARE MONEY’ STORIES: Transportation and Everyday Practices in the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro pp. 412-434

Marcos L. Campos

WHEN WE WERE ALMOST MODERN? Theory, Methods and Politics in The Centre for Environmental Studies, 1966–1975 pp. 435-451

Julian Molina and Roger Burrows

EPISTEMIC JUSTICE AND THE UNIVERSITY: Reclaiming the Academy for Emancipatory Urban Praxis pp. 452-467

Stephanie Butcher, Tanzil Shafique, Redento B. Recio and Ishita Chatterjee

Volume 49, issue 1, 2025

‘MAN MUST CHOP!’: Agency of Potholes, Informal Road Menders and Socioeconomic Survival on a Sub‐Urban Road in Nigeria pp. 5-20

Ọmọ́máyọ̀wá Ọláwálé Àbàtì

MEGA‐REAL ESTATE SPECULATION AND RACIALIZED DISPOSSESSION: Miami's Little Haiti pp. 21-38

Richard Tardanico

INFORMALITY AS THE UR‐FORM OF URBANITY: Keeping the Ur‐ in Urban Studies pp. 39-51

Kim Dovey

‘WHO COUNTS AS A “WHO”?’ Homeless Women and Geographies of Misrecognition in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden pp. 52-68

Kristina Grange

INTEGRATING CLIMATE POLICY OBJECTIVES INTO MUNICIPAL LAND POLICIES: From conceptualization to empirical evidence from Finland pp. 69-94

Tuulia Puustinen, Heidi Falkenbach, Ari Ekroos and Seppo Junnila

HERITAGIZING THE OTHER: Diversity, Heritage and Gentrification in Amsterdam Oost pp. 95-110

Elisa Fiore and Vittoria Caradonna

FROM GLOBALIZING TAIPEI TO LEARNING AMSTERDAM: Referencing as a Politicizing Strategy for Urban Development in Taiwan pp. 111-125

Yi‐Ling Chen and Chantalle Elisabeth Rietdijk

STATE BUILDING IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT: Reflections on Statecraft from the Shanghai Lockdown pp. 126-141

Ying Wang, Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang

INNOVATING URBAN CHINA: The Rise of the Local Venture State and the Making of New Entrepreneurial Spaces pp. 142-162

Lin Zhang and Tu Lan

STATES OF COMPULSION: Reassessing ‘State‐Led’ Neighborhood Change in Hong Kong pp. 163-181

Ben A. Gerlofs and Kylie Yuet Ning Poon

CONVENIENCE STORES AS CARE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR OLDER ADULTS: The Crisis of Care in Tokyo, Japan pp. 183-203

Tomohiro Ujikawa

STRUGGLING WITH THE DIGITAL NOMAD: Transnational teleworkers as the new ‘creative class’ in the urban marketplace? pp. 204-213

Jorge Sequera

LOCAL INITIATIVES IN SHRINKING CITIES: On Normative Framings and Hidden Aspirations in Scholarly Work pp. 214-223

Leona Sandmann, Maria Gunko, Irina Shirobokova, Ria‐Maria Adams, Johanna Lilius and Katrin Grossmann

Volume 48, issue 5, 2024

‘SANCTUARY FOR ALL’ OR ‘SANCTUARY FOR THE DESERVING’: How Municipal Bureaucracies Mediate and Decide Contentious Struggles over Urban Citizenship pp. 743-763

Walter Nicholls

PUBLIC‐MAKING IN HYPER‐DIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York pp. 765-787

James DeFilippis and Elana R. Simon

THE PARTNERSHIP QUESTION AS A SCALE QUESTION: Extending the Theorization of Entrepreneurial Urbanism in China pp. 789-814

Yong Zhang

THE PERSISTENCE OF PEENYA: Examining Industrial Space in Global Bangalore pp. 815-832

Aman Banerji

STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona pp. 833-854

Nicolás Palacios Crisóstomo and David Kaufmann

THE POWER OF UNCERTIFIED URBAN LAND pp. 855-876

Franklin Obeng‐Odoom and Anne Haila

ZONING AND THE ‘RIGHT’ CITY: The Challenges of Zoning in the Global South and Possibilities for Unzoning Informality pp. 877-893

Herman Geyer

THE DARK SIDE OF PLANETARY URBANIZATION: Operational Landscapes, Crisis and the ‘Peripheral Condition’ pp. 894-914

Thiago Canettieri

ELSEWHERES OF THE UNBUILT: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects pp. 916-935

Maren Larsen, Alke Jenss, Benjamin Schuetze and Kenny Cupers

PHANTOM REGIONS WITH PENUMBRAL BORDERS: Discussing the Palimpsest Spatialities and Hybrid Identities of Huizhou Region, China pp. 936-952

Pinyu Chen, Kaj Zimmerbauer, Ruyu Tao and Xiang Kong

Volume 48, issue 4, 2024

REWILDING BANGKOK: Critical Zones and the Cosmoecology of Parks and Protests pp. 543-559

Casper Bruun Jensen and Jakkrit Sangkhamanee

GREEN INFORMALITIES AS SOCIALLY JUST ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Enduring with Dignity at the Edges of Resilient Development in Dhaka pp. 560-583

Efadul Huq

HOW LOCAL PRACTICES OF SOCIOPOLITICAL INNOVATION DEVELOP: And Why This Matters for Urban Transformations pp. 585-602

Merlijn Van Hulst, Catherine Durose and Annika Agger

AGENCY AND POWER OF COASTAL COMMUNITIES: Assembling Micro Infrastructures as Everyday Resistance and Resilience in North Jakarta's Port pp. 603-626

Naimah Lutfi Abdullah Talib

CLIMATE‐JUST HOUSING: A Socio‐spatial Perspective on Climate Policy and Housing pp. 628-649

Sören Weißermel and Rainer Wehrhahn

DID INDIA EVER HAVE A RIGHT TO THE CITY MOVEMENT? Rethinking Housing Justice in Violent Times pp. 650-664

Sushmita Pati

INSURGENT CO‐PRODUCTION: Conflict, Cooperation and the Dialectics of Scale in Thailand's Baan Mankong Program pp. 666-688

Hayden Shelby

STATE‐LED GENTRIFICATION AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF URBAN AUTHORITARIAN PRACTICES pp. 689-696

Aysegul Can, Alke Jenss and Hugo Fanton

NEIGHBOURHOODS AGAINST THE STATE: Reversing Territorial Stigma in Casablanca and Beyond pp. 697-707

Stefano Portelli

HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang pp. 708-720

Giorgia Mascaro

UNVEILING URBAN DISPOSSESSIONS THROUGH A FEMINIST LENS: Social Reproduction, Gentrification and Authoritarian Neoliberal Urbanism pp. 721-728

Bahar Sakızlıoğlu

PLANETARY GENTRIFICATION AND URBAN AUTHORITARIANISM pp. 729-737

Loretta Lees

Volume 48, issue 3, 2024

NEO‐PENTECOSTAL URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA: Ontology, Politics, Poetics pp. 365-385

Gareth Millington, David Garbin and Simon Coleman

SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India pp. 386-402

Smriti Singh

RESIDUALIZED PUBLIC HOUSING IN ROMANIA: Peripheralization of ‘the Social’ and the Racialization of ‘Unhouseables’ pp. 403-421

Enikő Vincze

PREFIGURING PRAGMATICALLY? Prefigurative Politics and the Constellation of People Power Strategies for Winning Affordable Housing in Cape Town pp. 423-441

Amanda Tattersall and Kurt Iveson

THE HOUSING‐WELFARE REGIME AND THIRD‐SECTOR HOUSING IN HONG KONG AND SOUTH KOREA: A Historical Institutionalist Perspective pp. 442-462

Bo Kyong Seo and Dayoon Kim

UNRAVELLING THE ROLES OF ACTIVE RESIDENTS IN A POLITICALLY CHALLENGING CONTEXT: An Exploration in Cairo pp. 463-487

Aya Elwageeh, Maarten Van Ham and Reinout Kleinhans

GRAY GOVERNANCE AT BORDER CHECKPOINTS: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino‐Kazakh Border pp. 488-505

Tak‐Wing Ngo and Eva P.W. Hung

BETWEEN DREAMS AND SURVIVAL: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Neoliberalism among Entrepreneurial Workers from São Paulo's Peripheries pp. 506-522

Leonardo Fontes

FROM BUDAPEST TO BRUSSELS: Discursive and Material Failure in Mobile Policy pp. 523-538

Cristina Temenos

Volume 48, issue 1, 2024

THE MULTIPLE ENACTMENTS OF CONTAMINATION: Rethinking the Remediation and Redevelopment of Military‐Industrial Brownfields in the Tel Aviv Region pp. 7-30

Uri Ansenberg and Nathan Marom

HOUSING BEYOND THE METROPOLIS: Inhabiting Extractivism and Extensions in Urban Amazonia pp. 32-52

Rodrigo Castriota

THE (CULTURAL) WAR OF THE WORLDS: Framing Urban Redevelopment as ‘Terraforming’ pp. 53-73

Jennifer L. Garfield‐Abrams, Thomas Corcoran and Jonathan R. Wynn

‘BEST FOR FOODIES’: Food, Digital Media and Planetary Gentrification pp. 74-93

Pascale Joassart‐Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco

UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England pp. 94-110

Jenny Preece and John Flint

BODIES AGAINST MODERNITY: Politics of Slum Rehabilitations in India pp. 111-125

Harshavardhan Jatkar

BOATS AS HOUSING IN OXFORD, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context pp. 126-144

Jakub Galuszka

INHABITING LIMINALITY: The Temporal, Spatial and Experiential Assemblage of Emancipatory Practices in the Lives of Housing Squatters in Rome, Italy pp. 145-160

Chiara Cacciotti

URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco‐Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities pp. 161-176

Jenny Pickerill, Tendai Chitewere, Natasha Cornea, Joshua Lockyer, Rachel Macrorie, Jan Malý Blažek and Anitra Nelson