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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): Alan Harding, Roger Keil and Jeremy Seekings

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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 Downloads
Walter Nicholls
PUBLIC‐MAKING IN HYPER‐DIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York pp. 765-787 Downloads
James DeFilippis and Elana R. Simon
THE PARTNERSHIP QUESTION AS A SCALE QUESTION: Extending the Theorization of Entrepreneurial Urbanism in China pp. 789-814 Downloads
Yong Zhang
THE PERSISTENCE OF PEENYA: Examining Industrial Space in Global Bangalore pp. 815-832 Downloads
Aman Banerji
STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona pp. 833-854 Downloads
Nicolás Palacios Crisóstomo and David Kaufmann
THE POWER OF UNCERTIFIED URBAN LAND pp. 855-876 Downloads
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 Downloads
Herman Geyer
THE DARK SIDE OF PLANETARY URBANIZATION: Operational Landscapes, Crisis and the ‘Peripheral Condition’ pp. 894-914 Downloads
Thiago Canettieri
ELSEWHERES OF THE UNBUILT: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects pp. 916-935 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Efadul Huq
HOW LOCAL PRACTICES OF SOCIOPOLITICAL INNOVATION DEVELOP: And Why This Matters for Urban Transformations pp. 585-602 Downloads
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 Downloads
Naimah Lutfi Abdullah Talib
CLIMATE‐JUST HOUSING: A Socio‐spatial Perspective on Climate Policy and Housing pp. 628-649 Downloads
Sören Weißermel and Rainer Wehrhahn
DID INDIA EVER HAVE A RIGHT TO THE CITY MOVEMENT? Rethinking Housing Justice in Violent Times pp. 650-664 Downloads
Sushmita Pati
INSURGENT CO‐PRODUCTION: Conflict, Cooperation and the Dialectics of Scale in Thailand's Baan Mankong Program pp. 666-688 Downloads
Hayden Shelby
STATE‐LED GENTRIFICATION AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF URBAN AUTHORITARIAN PRACTICES pp. 689-696 Downloads
Aysegul Can, Alke Jenss and Hugo Fanton
NEIGHBOURHOODS AGAINST THE STATE: Reversing Territorial Stigma in Casablanca and Beyond pp. 697-707 Downloads
Stefano Portelli
HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang pp. 708-720 Downloads
Giorgia Mascaro
UNVEILING URBAN DISPOSSESSIONS THROUGH A FEMINIST LENS: Social Reproduction, Gentrification and Authoritarian Neoliberal Urbanism pp. 721-728 Downloads
Bahar Sakızlıoğlu
PLANETARY GENTRIFICATION AND URBAN AUTHORITARIANISM pp. 729-737 Downloads
Loretta Lees

Volume 48, issue 3, 2024

NEO‐PENTECOSTAL URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA: Ontology, Politics, Poetics pp. 365-385 Downloads
Gareth Millington, David Garbin and Simon Coleman
SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India pp. 386-402 Downloads
Smriti Singh
RESIDUALIZED PUBLIC HOUSING IN ROMANIA: Peripheralization of ‘the Social’ and the Racialization of ‘Unhouseables’ pp. 403-421 Downloads
Enikő Vincze
PREFIGURING PRAGMATICALLY? Prefigurative Politics and the Constellation of People Power Strategies for Winning Affordable Housing in Cape Town pp. 423-441 Downloads
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 Downloads
Bo Kyong Seo and Dayoon Kim
UNRAVELLING THE ROLES OF ACTIVE RESIDENTS IN A POLITICALLY CHALLENGING CONTEXT: An Exploration in Cairo pp. 463-487 Downloads
Aya Elwageeh, Maarten Van Ham and Reinout Kleinhans
GRAY GOVERNANCE AT BORDER CHECKPOINTS: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino‐Kazakh Border pp. 488-505 Downloads
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 Downloads
Leonardo Fontes
FROM BUDAPEST TO BRUSSELS: Discursive and Material Failure in Mobile Policy pp. 523-538 Downloads
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 Downloads
Uri Ansenberg and Nathan Marom
HOUSING BEYOND THE METROPOLIS: Inhabiting Extractivism and Extensions in Urban Amazonia pp. 32-52 Downloads
Rodrigo Castriota
THE (CULTURAL) WAR OF THE WORLDS: Framing Urban Redevelopment as ‘Terraforming’ pp. 53-73 Downloads
Jennifer L. Garfield‐Abrams, Thomas Corcoran and Jonathan R. Wynn
‘BEST FOR FOODIES’: Food, Digital Media and Planetary Gentrification pp. 74-93 Downloads
Pascale Joassart‐Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco
UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England pp. 94-110 Downloads
Jenny Preece and John Flint
BODIES AGAINST MODERNITY: Politics of Slum Rehabilitations in India pp. 111-125 Downloads
Harshavardhan Jatkar
BOATS AS HOUSING IN OXFORD, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context pp. 126-144 Downloads
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 Downloads
Chiara Cacciotti
URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco‐Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities pp. 161-176 Downloads
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 Downloads
Ian Dunham and Alec Foster
THE HOUSING/FINANCIAL COMPLEX IN SPAIN: After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis pp. 900-916 Downloads
Jordi G. Guzmán
ANTI‐PUBLIC FINANCE? The Democratic Effects of Municipal Bond Markets pp. 917-939 Downloads
James Christopher Mizes
UNPACKING CAPITAL SWITCHING: Value, Rentierism and Displacement in Absolute and Relative Forms of Switching pp. 940-956 Downloads
Ismael Yrigoy
ALGORITHMIC SUTURING: Platforms, Motorcycles and the ‘Last Mile’ in Urban Africa pp. 957-974 Downloads
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 Downloads
Solène Le Borgne
CITY OF NON‐EQUIVALENTS: Making, Maintaining and Disrupting Customary Attachments to Land in Port Vila, Vanuatu pp. 995-1012 Downloads
Jennifer Day
PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa pp. 1013-1029 Downloads
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 Downloads
Kean Fan Lim

Volume 47, issue 5, 2023

PLURALITY IN URBAN POLITICS: Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot pp. 693-709 Downloads
Veikko Eranti and Taina Meriluoto
VERTICAL GEOGRAPHIES, POLYVOCALITY AND THE EVERYDAY IN A DIVIDED CITY pp. 710-724 Downloads
Ana Aceska
IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE TOURISTIC CITY: The Marketing of Hate in Verona pp. 725-744 Downloads
Ipek Demirsu
THE URBAN LEFT IN POWER: Comparing the Profiles of ‘Municipal Socialists’ and the ‘New Urban Left’ in Swiss Cities pp. 745-772 Downloads
Baptiste Antoniazza, André Mach and Michael Andrea Strebel
THE INFLUENCE OF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS ON CITY GOVERNMENT INNOVATION pp. 774-791 Downloads
Ruth Puttick
THE POLITICS OF URBAN ECOLOGY: Paul Duvigneaud and the Rise of Ecological Urbanism in Brussels during the 1970s pp. 792-808 Downloads
Koenraad Danneels
BLOCOS URBANISM: Capitalism and Modularity in the Making of Contemporary Luanda pp. 809-832 Downloads
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 Downloads
Hsi‐Chuan Wang and Agustina María Bazán
GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION: Reproducing Dispossession and Erasure within a Waste Picker Organization in Mumbai pp. 861-875 Downloads
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 Downloads
João Tonucci
BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND HOPE: Affective Mediations of Urban Restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany pp. 546-562 Downloads
Leon Rosa Reichle
BEYOND THE TRIAGING OF NEGLECTED THINGS: Connecting Place and Participation Across an Urban System pp. 563-579 Downloads
Nick Vlahos
SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment pp. 581-600 Downloads
Shaun S.K. Teo
URBAN REGENERATION IN SEOUL: Alternative Urbanism or the Resilience of Neoliberal Urbanism? pp. 601-623 Downloads
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 Downloads
Declan Martin and Carl Grodach
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND DISSENT FOR POSTCOLONIAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS pp. 645-664 Downloads
Matt Johnston, Dan Darkey and Hilde Ibsen
SOUTH ASIAN URBAN CLIMATES: Towards Pluralistic Narratives and Expanded Lexicons pp. 667-687 Downloads
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 Downloads
Francisco J. Cuberos‐Gallardo
GOVERNING MIGRATION THROUGH SMALL TOWNS: Dispersal and the Production of Spaces of Transit pp. 349-367 Downloads
Rene Kreichauf
LIVING ON THE MARGINS: The Socio‐spatial Representation of Urban Internally Displaced Persons in Ethiopia pp. 369-385 Downloads
Dereje Regasa, Ameyu Godesso and Ine Lietaert
UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta pp. 386-404 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Youjeong Oh
‘ARE WE JUST KILLING PEOPLE?’: Centering Racial Capitalism in the Green Gentrification of the Atlanta BeltLine pp. 444-460 Downloads
Jessica (Jess) Martínez
ON URBAN RE‐ARRANGEMENTS: A Suite in Five Movements pp. 461-470 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Robbie Peters
PREFIGURATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE: Mobility, Citizenship, and the Agency of Objects pp. 183-199 Downloads
Amelia Thorpe
COLLECTIVELY GARDENING THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN MEXICO CITY: When Informal Practices Interact with the State pp. 201-220 Downloads
Martine El Ouardi and Françoise Montambeault
‘ALL EYES ON ME’: The (In)Formal Barriers to Market Trade in Europe pp. 221-236 Downloads
Gunvor Jónsson, Maria Lindmäe, Joanna Menet and Emil Van Eck
EXPERIENCING URBAN SMELLS WHEN WALKING: Kastamonu City Case pp. 237-257 Downloads
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 Downloads
Tariq Jazeel
CITIES AND THEIR GURUS: The Role of Superstar Consultants in Post‐political Urban Governance pp. 279-298 Downloads
Noga Keidar
RISK AND RETURNS: Large‐scale Funding for Urban Research pp. 299-304 Downloads
Michael Keith and Susan Parnell
THE PARADOX: Economic Growth that Endangers the Future of Research in Colombia pp. 305-311 Downloads
Juan Duque
RETHINKING THE RESEARCH FUNDING PROCESS: An Indian Perspective pp. 312-317 Downloads
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 Downloads
Andrew Tucker

Volume 47, issue 1, 2023

PLANETARY URBANIZATION AND IMPERIALISM: A View from Guåhan/Guam pp. 5-21 Downloads
Kyle Galindez
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Heterogeneous Governance, Claims Making and Forced Eviction in a Megacity pp. 23-38 Downloads
Brianna Castro
THE POWER OF IMPENDING ZONING: Governance through Inaction in a Secondary City in Burkina Faso pp. 39-53 Downloads
Jesper Bjarnesen
DIS/POSSESSORY DATA POLITICS: From Tenant Screening to Anti‐Eviction Organizing pp. 54-70 Downloads
Erin McElroy
SPOTLIGHTING MIGRANT AGENCY: How Migratory Movements and Temporariness Drive Peripheral Urbanization in Mumbai's Agrarian‐urban Edge pp. 71-89 Downloads
Lalitha Kamath and Malay Kotal
GAMONALES WHO MAKE A CITY: Intimate Interactions in City Building pp. 90-105 Downloads
Maria Atuesta Ortiz
INDIGENOUS URBANISMS pp. 106-109 Downloads
Naama Blatman and Kyle Mays
INDIGENOUS URBANISM AS AN ANALYTIC: Towards Indigenous Urban Theory pp. 110-118 Downloads
Heather Dorries
THE PRESENCE OF THE ABSENCE: Indigenous Palestinian Urbanism in Israel pp. 119-128 Downloads
Naama Blatman and Areej Sabbagh‐Khoury
CLAIMING SPACE, LAND AND ECOLOGY: Mapping Geographies of Indigenous and Decolonial Urbanisms in Taipei pp. 130-145 Downloads
Tomonori Sugimoto
IMAGINING A DECOLONIZED CITY IN AND FROM AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND pp. 146-154 Downloads
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 Downloads
Kyle T. Mays
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