International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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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

Volume 47, issue 6, 2023

FRINGE FINANCIAL ECOLOGIES AND PLACE‐BASED EXCLUSION: A Tale of Two Cities pp. 881-898

Ian Dunham and Alec Foster

THE HOUSING/FINANCIAL COMPLEX IN SPAIN: After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis pp. 900-916

Jordi G. Guzmán

ANTI‐PUBLIC FINANCE? The Democratic Effects of Municipal Bond Markets pp. 917-939

James Christopher Mizes

UNPACKING CAPITAL SWITCHING: Value, Rentierism and Displacement in Absolute and Relative Forms of Switching pp. 940-956

Ismael Yrigoy

ALGORITHMIC SUTURING: Platforms, Motorcycles and the ‘Last Mile’ in Urban Africa pp. 957-974

Andrea Pollio, Liza Rose Cirolia and Jack Ong'iro Odeo

RE‐SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium‐Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France pp. 975-994

Solène Le Borgne

CITY OF NON‐EQUIVALENTS: Making, Maintaining and Disrupting Customary Attachments to Land in Port Vila, Vanuatu pp. 995-1012

Jennifer Day

PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa pp. 1013-1029

Marius Pieterse and Thomas Coggin

PEASANT MOBILIZATION, THE ‘LAND QUESTION’ AND SPATIAL EGALITARIANISM IN AN URBANIZING CHINA: A Genealogical Assessment and a New Research Agenda pp. 1030-1051

Kean Fan Lim

Volume 47, issue 5, 2023

PLURALITY IN URBAN POLITICS: Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot pp. 693-709

Veikko Eranti and Taina Meriluoto

VERTICAL GEOGRAPHIES, POLYVOCALITY AND THE EVERYDAY IN A DIVIDED CITY pp. 710-724

Ana Aceska

IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE TOURISTIC CITY: The Marketing of Hate in Verona pp. 725-744

Ipek Demirsu

THE URBAN LEFT IN POWER: Comparing the Profiles of ‘Municipal Socialists’ and the ‘New Urban Left’ in Swiss Cities pp. 745-772

Baptiste Antoniazza, André Mach and Michael Andrea Strebel

THE INFLUENCE OF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS ON CITY GOVERNMENT INNOVATION pp. 774-791

Ruth Puttick

THE POLITICS OF URBAN ECOLOGY: Paul Duvigneaud and the Rise of Ecological Urbanism in Brussels during the 1970s pp. 792-808

Koenraad Danneels

BLOCOS URBANISM: Capitalism and Modularity in the Making of Contemporary Luanda pp. 809-832

Ricardo Cardoso, Jia‐Ching Chen and Henrik Ernstson

HOUSING INFORMALITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: Insights from a Policy Comparison between Accra and Buenos Aires pp. 833-860

Hsi‐Chuan Wang and Agustina María Bazán

GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION: Reproducing Dispossession and Erasure within a Waste Picker Organization in Mumbai pp. 861-875

Sneha Sharma

Volume 47, issue 4, 2023

PROPERTY‐LED INFORMALITY: Shifting Informal Land Development from Popular Housing to Middle‐Class and Elite Speculation in Belo Horizonte pp. 527-545

João Tonucci

BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND HOPE: Affective Mediations of Urban Restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany pp. 546-562

Leon Rosa Reichle

BEYOND THE TRIAGING OF NEGLECTED THINGS: Connecting Place and Participation Across an Urban System pp. 563-579

Nick Vlahos

SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment pp. 581-600

Shaun S.K. Teo

URBAN REGENERATION IN SEOUL: Alternative Urbanism or the Resilience of Neoliberal Urbanism? pp. 601-623

Seowoo Nam and Seung‐Ook Lee

RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION IN GENTRIFYING URBAN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS: The Experience of Cultural Manufacturers in San Francisco and Melbourne pp. 625-644

Declan Martin and Carl Grodach

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND DISSENT FOR POSTCOLONIAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS pp. 645-664

Matt Johnston, Dan Darkey and Hilde Ibsen

SOUTH ASIAN URBAN CLIMATES: Towards Pluralistic Narratives and Expanded Lexicons pp. 667-687

Nida Rehman, Aparna Parikh, Zachary Lamb, Shruti Syal, D. Asher Ghertner, SiddhaRth Menon, Nausheen Anwar, Hira Nabi, Waqas Butt, Malini Ranganathan, Krithika Srinivasan, Harshavardhan Bhat, Anthony Powis and Nikhil Anand

Volume 47, issue 3, 2023

MIGRANT URBANISM: Cape Verdean Djunta‐mon and its Impact on the Built Environment of Cova da Moura (Lisbon) pp. 329-348

Francisco J. Cuberos‐Gallardo

GOVERNING MIGRATION THROUGH SMALL TOWNS: Dispersal and the Production of Spaces of Transit pp. 349-367

Rene Kreichauf

LIVING ON THE MARGINS: The Socio‐spatial Representation of Urban Internally Displaced Persons in Ethiopia pp. 369-385

Dereje Regasa, Ameyu Godesso and Ine Lietaert

UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta pp. 386-404

Clara Siagian, Ariane Utomo, Muhammad Insan Kamil and Brian Cook

PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN A POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXT: A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Land Use Planning in Morocco pp. 405-424

Noussayba Rahmouni and Izuru Saizen

AGAINST THE COLONIZATION OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT: The Top‐dong Right to the City Movement in Jeju, South Korea pp. 425-443

Youjeong Oh

‘ARE WE JUST KILLING PEOPLE?’: Centering Racial Capitalism in the Green Gentrification of the Atlanta BeltLine pp. 444-460

Jessica (Jess) Martínez

ON URBAN RE‐ARRANGEMENTS: A Suite in Five Movements pp. 461-470

The Re‐Arrangements Collective, Fabien Cante, Ajmal Hussain, Timo Makori, Surer Qassim Mohamed, Alana Osbourne, Francesca Pilo’, Kavita Ramakrishnan, AbdouMaliq Simone, Rike Sitas and Adeem Suhail

MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re‐signification and the Making of Governable Spaces pp. 471-482

The Re‐Arrangements Collective, Fabien Cante, Ajmal Hussain, Timo Makori, Surer Qassim Mohamed, Alana Osbourne, Francesca Pilo’, Kavita Ramakrishnan, AbdouMaliq Simone, Rike Sitas and Adeem Suhail

MOVEMENT 3. NAVIGATING URBAN ARRANGEMENTS pp. 483-495

The Re‐Arrangements Collective, Fabien Cante, Ajmal Hussain, Timo Makori, Surer Qassim Mohamed, Alana Osbourne, Francesca Pilo', Kavita Ramakrishnan, AbdouMaliq Simone, Rike Sitas and Adeem Suhail

MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re‐arrangements pp. 496-509

The Re‐Arrangements Collective, Fabien Cante, Ajmal Hussain, Timo Makori, Surer Qassim Mohamed, Alana Osbourne, Francesca Pilo', Kavita Ramakrishnan, AbdouMaliq Simone, Rike Sitas and Adeem Suhail

MOVEMENT 5. SENSING THE AFFECTIVE LIVES OF ARRANGEMENTS pp. 510-521

The Re‐Arrangements Collective, Fabien Cante, Ajmal Hussain, Timo Makori, Surer Qassim Mohamed, Alana Osbourne, Francesca Pilo', Kavita Ramakrishnan, AbdouMaliq Simone, Rike Sitas and Adeem Suhail

Volume 47, issue 2, 2023

THE LIMITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE: Public Transport in a Post‐colonial City pp. 167-181

Robbie Peters

PREFIGURATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE: Mobility, Citizenship, and the Agency of Objects pp. 183-199

Amelia Thorpe

COLLECTIVELY GARDENING THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN MEXICO CITY: When Informal Practices Interact with the State pp. 201-220

Martine El Ouardi and Françoise Montambeault

‘ALL EYES ON ME’: The (In)Formal Barriers to Market Trade in Europe pp. 221-236

Gunvor Jónsson, Maria Lindmäe, Joanna Menet and Emil Van Eck

EXPERIENCING URBAN SMELLS WHEN WALKING: Kastamonu City Case pp. 237-257

Elif Ayan Çeven and Nur Belkayali

IN THE SHADOW OF ‘THE CITY’ YET TO COME: Auroville, Developmentalism and the Social Effects of Cityness pp. 258-278

Tariq Jazeel

CITIES AND THEIR GURUS: The Role of Superstar Consultants in Post‐political Urban Governance pp. 279-298

Noga Keidar

RISK AND RETURNS: Large‐scale Funding for Urban Research pp. 299-304

Michael Keith and Susan Parnell

THE PARADOX: Economic Growth that Endangers the Future of Research in Colombia pp. 305-311

Juan Duque

RETHINKING THE RESEARCH FUNDING PROCESS: An Indian Perspective pp. 312-317

Neha Sami

THE BENEFITS OF LARGE‐SCALE, MULTI‐SITE INTERNATIONALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS: An Example of New Academic Insights and New Funding Possibilities pp. 318-323

Andrew Tucker

Volume 47, issue 1, 2023

PLANETARY URBANIZATION AND IMPERIALISM: A View from Guåhan/Guam pp. 5-21

Kyle Galindez

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Heterogeneous Governance, Claims Making and Forced Eviction in a Megacity pp. 23-38

Brianna Castro

THE POWER OF IMPENDING ZONING: Governance through Inaction in a Secondary City in Burkina Faso pp. 39-53

Jesper Bjarnesen

DIS/POSSESSORY DATA POLITICS: From Tenant Screening to Anti‐Eviction Organizing pp. 54-70

Erin McElroy

SPOTLIGHTING MIGRANT AGENCY: How Migratory Movements and Temporariness Drive Peripheral Urbanization in Mumbai's Agrarian‐urban Edge pp. 71-89

Lalitha Kamath and Malay Kotal

GAMONALES WHO MAKE A CITY: Intimate Interactions in City Building pp. 90-105

Maria Atuesta Ortiz

INDIGENOUS URBANISMS pp. 106-109

Naama Blatman and Kyle Mays

INDIGENOUS URBANISM AS AN ANALYTIC: Towards Indigenous Urban Theory pp. 110-118

Heather Dorries

THE PRESENCE OF THE ABSENCE: Indigenous Palestinian Urbanism in Israel pp. 119-128

Naama Blatman and Areej Sabbagh‐Khoury

CLAIMING SPACE, LAND AND ECOLOGY: Mapping Geographies of Indigenous and Decolonial Urbanisms in Taipei pp. 130-145

Tomonori Sugimoto

IMAGINING A DECOLONIZED CITY IN AND FROM AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND pp. 146-154

Rebecca Kiddle, Bianca Elkington, Mike Ross, Ocean Ripeka Mercier, Amanda Thomas, Morten Gjerde, Jennie Smeaton, Tui Arona and Chantal Mawer

THE CITIES WE CALL HOME: Indigeneity, Race and Settler‐Colonial Urbanisms pp. 155-162

Kyle T. Mays