International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 49, issue 4, 2025

CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES: Why is ‘Sustainability’ Most Popular at an Urban Scale? pp. 741-756

Ståle Holgersen

HOW DATA CENTERS HAVE COME TO MATTER: Governing the Spatial and Environmental Footprint of the ‘Digital Gateway to Europe’ pp. 757-778

Jochen Monstadt and Katherine Saltzman

POWER AND PREJUDICE: The Micropolitics of Electricity Access in Uganda's Urban Informal Settlements pp. 779-797

Penlope Yaguma

URBAN AGRICULTURE IN NEO‐AUSTERITY TIMES: Reflections on a Contested Policy Domain pp. 798-814

António Ferreira, Ana MÉLICE Dias and Miguel Lopes

COMPARING CITY GOVERNANCE MODELS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: The Emergence of Shared, Visionary Leadership pp. 815-834

Georgina Blakeley, Francisco Collado Campaña, Caroline Gray and Ángel Valencia Sáiz

INTEGRATING SPACES OF RELEGATION AND VALUE: Examining the Governance of Threat and Urban Social Inequality in the Brussels Capital Region pp. 835-851

Alex Govers Pijoan and Lore Janssens

CAPTURING DISPLACEMENT: A Dialectical Mixed‐Methods Approach to the Study of Renoviction—A Case from Sweden pp. 852-875

Åse Richard, Marcus Mohall and Irene Molina

CAPITALIZING ON EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES: French Business Schools’ Offshore Campus Investment Strategies in London, Berlin and Barcelona pp. 876-891

Alice Bobée

‘DARKENING’ INFORMALIZED WORKERS: Moral Geographies and the In/Visibilization of Transnational Migrants in Spain pp. 892-911

Begoña Aramayona

‘I LEARNED TO MAKE A LOT MORE SPACE IN MYSELF FOR OTHER PEOPLE’: Examining the Negotiation of Hegemonic and Alternative Values in the Urban Commons pp. 912-928

Emma Jo Griffith and Justus Uitermark

CARE INFRASTRUCTURES IN CHILE DURING THE PANDEMIC: Communitarian Weavings, Spaces and the Production of Common Goods pp. 929-947

Francisco Letelier Troncoso, Clara Irazábal, Javiera Cubillos Almendra and Miguel Sepúlveda Salazar

THE COSMOPOLITICS OF CATS AND WILDLIFE ON CAPE TOWN'S URBAN EDGE pp. 948-966

Nicoli Nattrass, Zoë Woodgate, Benjamin Wittenberg and M. Justin O'Riain

COMPASSION AND THE CITY: An Introduction pp. 967-974

Yasmeen Arif

BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION) pp. 975-982

Abdoumaliq Simone

RESPONDING TO MURDER: The City as a Site of Compassion for LGBTQ Activists in Bangladesh pp. 983-990

Aeshna Badruzzaman

CARING FOR CATS IN CAIRO: Urban Grammars of Compassion pp. 991-999

Amira Mittermaier

ECONOMIES OF EMPATHY: Transactions in the Course of Being Urban pp. 1000-1006

Yasmeen Arif

SPACES OF WITHDRAWAL: Compassionate Cities without Citizens pp. 1007-1014

Morten Nielsen

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

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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