International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

1997 - 2026

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Volume 50, issue 4, 2026

THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time pp. 785-800

Hanna Hilbrandt, Erandi Barroso Olmedo and Fritz‐Julius Grafe

HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand pp. 801-819

Tim White

‘CLOSING THE CARBON LOOP’: Climate Policy Discourses and the Material Politics of Municipal Waste‐to‐Biofuel Programs pp. 820-838

Taylor Davey

REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon pp. 839-855

Hannah Sender, Hanna Baumann and Joana Dabaj

FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics pp. 856-876

Thierry Theurillat and Mengke Zhang

CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China pp. 877-896

Hao Chen and Yunpeng Zhang

REFUGEE CAMP SITING AND THE EMERGENCE OF NIMBY MOVEMENTS: A Mixed‐method Analysis of the Role of ‘Top‐down’ Governance and Media Influence in Greece pp. 897-920

Alexandra Makridou, Ioannis Frangopoulos and Nikos Kapitsinis

SECURITY ZONES AS ‘NEW CITIES’: Public‐private Partnership and the Transformation of Land Use in Accra, Ghana pp. 921-938

Isaac K. Arthur, Robert Lawrence Afutu‐Kotey and Irene Appeaning Addo

THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco pp. 939-959

Irene Farah

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea pp. 960-981

Pol Fité Matamoros

FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City pp. 982-1002

Fernando Gutiérrez

TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971) pp. 1003-1019

William Kutz

REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples pp. 1020-1039

Martina Locorotondo and Adam Fishwick

CARE MATTERS IN THE ENTANGLED COMMONS: Perspectives on a Temporality of Urgency, Knowledge Co‐production and Infrastructures of Sociality in Diverse Urban Contexts pp. 1040-1046

Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe

ENTANGLED PUBLIC ESSENTIALS: Female Perspectives on Public Toilets in Portugal and How to Propel Change pp. 1047-1052

Bruna Coelho

THE CONTESTED CITY OF VENICE: Caring for Commodified Common Infrastructures in a Touristified Environment pp. 1053-1064

Cornelia Dlabaja

PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN LONELINESS: City Paths Toward (Un)common Lifeworlds pp. 1065-1074

Nina Goldman

DIGITAL TECHNOSCIENTIFIC SOCIALITIES AS AN ENTANGLED COMMONS pp. 1075-1084

Lucilla Barchetta

Volume 50, issue 3, 2026

STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China pp. 509-526

Gregory Fayard

INTEGRATING URBAN LAND USE PLANNING WITH FOOD SYSTEMS IN AUSTRALIA: Policy Integration Challenges and Opportunities pp. 527-544

Lijun Summerhayes and Douglas Baker

THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA pp. 545-566

Sophie Webber and Wahyu Kusuma Astuti

EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi pp. 567-587

Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru and Sophie Schramm

RELATIONAL POLITICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: The Solidarity of City and Non‐City Inhabitants in Java, Indonesia pp. 588-607

Isnu Putra Pratama, Delik Hudalah, Haryo Winarso and Tim Bunnell

PLACE LEADERSHIP AND BRANDING‐DRIVEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA: A Political Economy Approach pp. 608-625

Chen Li and Di Wu

SMART CITY CONTROL ROOMS: The Rewiring of Local Governance Landscapes in India pp. 626-643

Devika Prakash, Andrew Karvonen and Jonathan Metzger

THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility pp. 644-666

Ben Platt and Zuhri James

FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities pp. 667-690

Nemoy Lewis, Dimitri Panou and Richard Maaranen

KNOWING LIKE A MOVEMENT: The Role of Local Expertise in Informal Housing Policies pp. 691-711

Alejandra Cueto

MAINTAINING RENTAL HOUSING AS AN ASSET: Exploring Institutional Investors in Sweden’s Rental Market pp. 712-730

Jennie Gustafsson

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ‘ACCEPT’ URBAN SHRINKAGE? A Comparative Analysis of Discursive Pathways to Policy and Action on Shrinking Cities in the Netherlands and Finland pp. 731-752

Marjan Marjanović and Johanna Lilius

HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today pp. 753-778

Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller and Ria Wilken

Volume 50, issue 2, 2026

STATE‐LED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China pp. 277-292

Ettore Santi

NEGOTIATING URBAN FORMALITIES: The Social Regulation of Construction in Douala, Cameroon pp. 293-308

Ludovic Bakebek

BEYOND THE PARALYSIS OF THE POST‐POLITICAL? The Micropolitical in Post‐Political Participatory Planning in Copenhagen, Denmark pp. 309-328

Stephanie Loveless

THE ILLUSION OF FLEXIBILITY: Housing Aspirations Across Generations in Brazil's Formal Market pp. 329-348

Rafael Kalinoski and Mario Prokopiuk

THE COMMODIFICATION GAP AND THE CONTRADICTORY DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL MONOPOLY RENT: Insights from Kyoto, Japan pp. 349-365

Matthew B. Anderson

CLASS, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP: Affluent Informal Settlements and the Cultural Production of Property in Delhi pp. 366-385

Vivek Mishra

PLOTTING NEW MIDDLE‐CLASS ASPIRATIONS: ‘Outlaw’ Builders of Market‐rate Affordable Homes in Chennai's Agrarian Urban Frontier pp. 386-409

Ramya Ramanath and K.P. Manikandan

SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle‐class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa pp. 410-429

Julien Migozzi

SUBSTITUTING FOR THE STATE: The Sovereignty Impacts of Diverse Citizens’ Off‐grid Infrastructure Strategies in South Africa pp. 430-448

Fiona Anciano, Charlotte Lemanski, Christina Culwick Fatti and Margot Rubin

‘FROM GHETTO TO HABITUS FACTORY’ ROMA CAMPS IN ITALY: An Empirical Extension of Loïc Wacquant's Theorization pp. 449-465

Vincenzo Romania and Tommaso Bertazzo

RIGHT TO THE CAMPSITE: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue their Struggle for Inclusion pp. 466-485

Dominic Teodorescu

THE ‘OTHERS’ OF TENT CITIES: Reconstruction of Social Order Through Emotions pp. 486-504

Handan Akyigit, Sinem Yildirimalp, Hatice Turut, Fatma Zehra Tocoglu and Buşra Yigit

Volume 50, issue 1, 2026

THE CONTESTED URBANISM OF ABANDONMENT: The Afterlife of Two Distressed Neighborhoods in Detroit pp. 5-23

Martin J. Murray, María Arquero de Alarcón and Olaia Chivite Amigo

SURFACE TENSIONS: Roads, Potholes and the Embodied Politics of Driving in Urban India pp. 24-43

Sneha Annavarapu

THE CONSTRUCTION STATE UNBOUND? Struggles over the Seoul Metropolitan Region’s Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization pp. 44-62

Laam Hae and Jamie Doucette

HOW NON‐RESIDENTS DERAIL DEFENSIVE DEVELOPMENT: The Magnet School and Failed Wawa Gas Station in Coral Gables, Florida pp. 63-78

Aarti Mehta‐Kroll

SMART CITIES BEYOND METHODOLOGICAL CITYISM: Foregrounding Developmentalism, Scalar Flexing and the Rebranding of the ‘Urban’ pp. 79-96

Prerona Das, Orlando Woods and Lily Kong

NARRATIVES OF SMART URBANISM: And their Role in the Digitalization of Urban Services in Poland pp. 97-113

Mateusz Trochymiak, Anna Domaradzka, Monika Berdys and Celina Strzelecka

FORCE AND ASPIRATION: Mobility and Class Formation on the Peripheries of Addis Ababa pp. 114-132

Tom Goodfellow, Metadel Sileshi Belihu and Zhengli Huang

THE POTENTIAL OF ARCHIVES IN INFORMAL PLACEMAKING OF FORMER MENTAL ASYLUMS: Insights from Pionta Commoning Archival Practices Toward a Living Urban Archive pp. 133-151

Gozde Yildiz and Francesca Bianchi

TEMPORARY ARTWASHING AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE: Curating Gentrification through Real Estate Marketing in Berlin pp. 152-169

Claudia Seldin

INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT TRANSITIONS: Agglomeration and Gentrification in Urban Industrial Zones pp. 170-190

Carl Grodach, Elizabeth Taylor, Joe Hurley and Declan Martin

CHINA’S LAND FINANCE AS ACTIVE MODE OF LAND DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY: Reality, History and Prospects pp. 191-220

Nannan Xu

MOTIVATIONS OF CITIZENS AND ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS: Co‐Producing Urban Greenspaces in Beijing pp. 221-239

Luquan Liang, Jennifer Day and Sun Sheng Han

PLANET AT THE END OF THE CITY: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory pp. 240-255

Kian Goh

INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies pp. 256-264

Simon Marvin, Colin Mcfarlane and Jonathan Rutherford

THE POWER OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: What Does it Mean to do Critical Urban Scholarship from the South? pp. 265-270

María José Álvarez‐Rivadulla