International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 38, issue 6, 2014

Unveiling Urban Sprawl in the Mediterranean Region: Towards a Latent Urban Transformation? pp. 1935-1953

Luca Salvati and Vittorio Gargiulo Morelli

Living on the Edge: Lessons from the Peri-urban Village pp. 1954-1969

Suzanne Vallance

Land Tenure in the Changing Peri-Urban Areas of Ethiopia: The Case of Bahir Dar City pp. 1970-1984

Achamyeleh Gashu Adam

Impacts of Privatization of Customary Land Rights in Zambia: A Comparative Study of Rural and Peri-urban Locations pp. 1985-2007

Austine Ng'ombe, Ramin Keivani, Michael Mattingly and Michael Stubbs

Everyday Lives in Vertical Neighbourhoods: Exploring Bangladeshi Residential Spaces in Toronto's Inner Suburbs pp. 2008-2024

Sutama Ghosh

Beautifying the Slum: Cable Car Fetishism in Cazucá, Colombia pp. 2025-2041

María José Álvarez Rivadulla and Diana Bocarejo

Neighbourhood Effects as Indirect Effects: Evidence from a Dutch Case Study on the Significance of Neighbourhood for Employment Trajectories pp. 2042-2059

Fenne M. Pinkster

Risky Businesses? Young People in Informal Self-Employment in Sofia pp. 2060-2077

Tanya Chavdarova

Generational Dimensions of Neoliberal and Post-Fordist Restructuring: The Changing Characteristics of Young Adults and Growing Income Inequality in Montreal and Vancouver pp. 2078-2102

Markus Moos

Neighbourhood Spatial Order, the Local Economy and Firm Mobility in Urban Areas of the Netherlands pp. 2103-2122

Pascal Beckers and Bart Sleutjes

The Dortmund Case — On the Enactment of an Urban Economic Imaginary pp. 2123-2140

Michael Jonas

Korean Television Dramas and the Political Economy of City Promotion pp. 2141-2155

Youjeong Oh

Cracks in the Creative City: The Contradictions of Community Arts Practice pp. 2156-2173

Heather E. McLean

Dynamics of Inventor Networks and the Evolution of Technology Clusters pp. 2174-2200

Jiang He and M. Hosein Fallah

Decentralization is Dead, Long Live Decentralization! Capital City Reform and Political Rights in Kampala, Uganda pp. 2201-2216

Christopher D. Gore and Nansozi K. Muwanga

Cultural Cooperation, Institution Building and Metropolitan Governance in Decentralizing Indonesia pp. 2217-2234

Delik Hudalah, Tommy Firman and Johan Woltjer

Spatial Imaginaries of the Dutch–German–Belgian Borderlands: A Multidimensional Analysis of Cross-Border Regional Governance pp. 2235-2255

Krisztina Varró

Facilitative Leadership and the Challenge of Renewing Local Democracy in Italy pp. 2256-2273

Sonia Bussu and Koen P.R. Bartels

The Struggle for a Voice: Tensions between Associations and Citizens in Participatory Budgeting pp. 2274-2291

Ernesto Ganuza, Héloïse Nez and Ernesto Morales

The Postcolonial City and its Displaced Poor: Rethinking ‘Political Society’ in Delhi pp. 2292-2308

Sanjeev Routray

The Weaknesses of Civic Territorial Organizations: Civic Engagement and Homeowners Associations in Urban China pp. 2309-2327

Qiang Fu and Nan Lin

Gavin Shatkin (ed.) 2014: Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local. Studies in Urban and Social Change Series. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell pp. 2328-2329

Xuefei Ren

Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse 2014: Africa's Urban Revolution. London and New York, NY: Zed Books pp. 2329-2331

António Tomás

Jon Norman 2013: Small Cities USA: Growth, Diversity and Inequality. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press pp. 2331-2332

Sonia Hirt

Neil Kraus 2013: Majoritarian Cities: Policy Making and Inequality in Urban Politics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press pp. 2332-2334

Charles W. Kaye-Essien

Ralf Brand and Sarah Fregonese 2013: The Radicals' City: Urban Environment, Polarisation, Cohesion. Design and the Built Environment Series. Surrey: Ashgate pp. 2334-2335

Jihad Farah

Jerome Krase 2012: Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class. Urban Anthropology Series. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate pp. 2336-2337

Christien Klaufus

Patsy Healey and Robert Upton (eds.) 2010: Crossing Borders: International Exchange and Planning Practices. RTPI Library Series. London and New York, NY: Routledge pp. 2337-2339

Enrico Gualini

Katherine Giuffre 2013: Communities and Networks. Using Social Network Analysis to Rethink Urban and Community Studies. Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 2339-2340

Beate Volker

Volume 38, issue 5, 2014

Where is Urban Politics? pp. 1551-1560

Scott Rodgers, Clive Barnett and Allan Cochrane

The Symbiosis of the Urban and the Political pp. 1561-1575

Warren Magnusson

The Urban, Politics and Subject Formation pp. 1576-1588

Lisa M. Hoffman

Locating the Urban In-between: Tracking the Urban Politics of Infrastructure in Toronto pp. 1589-1608

Douglas Young and Roger Keil

The Urban Unbound: London's Politics and the 2012 Olympic Games pp. 1609-1624

John Allen and Allan Cochrane

What Do Cities Have to Do with Democracy? pp. 1625-1643

Clive Barnett

On Marxism, Pragmatism and Critical Urban Studies pp. 1644-1659

Gary Bridge

Cities in Contemporary Capitalism pp. 1660-1677

Stefan Krätke

Development by Decree: The Limits of ‘Authoritarian Modernization’ in the Russian Federation pp. 1678-1696

Nadir Kinossian and Kevin Morgan

The Border as a Resource in the Global Urban Space: A Contribution to the Cross-Border Metropolis Hypothesis pp. 1697-1711

Christophe Sohn

Building Innovation Excellence of World Class: The Cluster as an Instrument of Spatial Governance in the European Union pp. 1712-1731

Toni Ahlqvist

Dubai in the ‘Middle’ pp. 1732-1748

Michele Acuto

How does(n't) Urban Shrinkage get onto the Agenda? Experiences from Leipzig, Liverpool, Genoa and Bytom pp. 1749-1766

Matthias Bernt, Annegret Haase, Katrin Großmann, Matthew Cocks, Chris Couch, Caterina Cortese and Robert Krzysztofik

Guerrilla-style Defensive Architecture in Detroit: A Self-provisioned Security Strategy in a Neoliberal Space of Disinvestment pp. 1767-1784

Kimberley Kinder

Space and Identity in Resistance against Neoliberal Urban Planning in Turkey pp. 1785-1806

Gülçin Erdi Lelandais

Community Leadership and the Construction of Political Legitimacy: Unpacking Bourdieu's ‘Political Capital’ in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg pp. 1807-1832

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Obvious Katsaura

Reconstructing Urban Politics with a Bourdieusian Framework: The Case of Local Low-Income Housing Policy pp. 1833-1848

Yongjun Shin

Debating the State in Private Housing Neighborhoods: The Governance of Homeowners' Associations in Urban Shanghai pp. 1849-1866

Mujun Zhou

Food fight! Immigrant Street Vendors, Gourmet Food Trucks and the Differential Valuation of Creative Producers in Chicago pp. 1867-1883

Nina Martin

Informal Traders and the Battlegrounds of Revanchism in Cusco, Peru pp. 1884-1903

Peter K. Mackie, Rosemary D.F. Bromley and Alison M.B. Brown

Critical Urban Theory versus Critical Urban Studies: A Review Debate pp. 1904-1917

Peter Marcuse, David Imbroscio, Simon Parker, Jonathan S. Davies and Warren Magnusson

Judith K. De Jong 2014: New SubUrbanisms. London: Routledge.; Leigh Gallagher 2013: The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving. New York: Penguin.; Roger Keil 2013: Suburban Constellations. Berlin: Jovis.; Nicholas A. Phelps and Fulong Wu 2011: International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World?. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 1918-1921

Alex Schafran

Rupa Huq 2013: Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture. London: Bloomsbury pp. 1921-1923

Alison Bain

Kevin Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory ( 2011 ): Unhealthy Cities: Poverty, Race, and Place in America. New York: Routledge pp. 1923-1925

Deborah Wallace

Laam Hae 2012: The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City: Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York. New York: Routledge pp. 1925-1927

David Grazian

David R. Díaz and Rodolfo D. Torres (eds.) 2012: Latino Urbanism: The Politics of Planning, Policy, and Development. New York: New York University Press pp. 1927-1928

Rodolfo F. Acuña

Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward (eds.) 2011: Mobile Urbanism. Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 1928-1930

Gilles Pinson

Karl Beitel 2013: Local Protest, Global Movements — Capital, Community, and State in San Francisco. Philadelphia: Temple University Press pp. 1930-1931

Kate Shaw

Erik Harms 2011: Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press pp. 1931-1933

Encarnación Moya

Volume 38, issue 4, 2014

Power Relations and Social Mix in Metropolitan Neighbourhoods in North America and Europe: Moving Beyond Gentrification? pp. 1133-1141

Gary Bridge, Tim Butler and Patrick Le Galès

Negotiating Social Mix in Toronto's First Public Housing Redevelopment: Power, Space and Social Control in Don Mount Court pp. 1160-1180

Martine August

Loving Diversity/Controlling Diversity: Exploring the Ambivalent Mobilization of Upper-Middle-Class Gentrifiers, South End, Boston pp. 1181-1194

Sylvie Tissot

Neither ‘Deepest, Darkest Peckham’ nor ‘Run-of-the-Mill’ East Dulwich: The Middle Classes and their ‘Others’ in an Inner-London Neighbourhood pp. 1195-1210

Emma Jackson and Michaela Benson

The Middle Class ‘at Home among the Poor’ — How Social Mix is Lived in Parisian Suburbs: Between Local Attachment and Metropolitan Practices pp. 1211-1233

Marie-Hélène Bacqué, Eric Charmes and Stéphanie Vermeersch

Gentrification in Spain and Latin America — a Critical Dialogue pp. 1234-1265

Michael Janoschka, Jorge Sequera and Luis Salinas

Back to Little Havana: Controlling Gentrification in the Heart of Cuban Miami pp. 1266-1285

Marcos Feldman and Violaine Jolivet

Gentrification in Hong Kong? Epistemology vs. Ontology pp. 1286-1303

David Ley and Sin Yih Teo

‘Stop Being a Tourist!’ New Dynamics of Urban Tourism in Berlin-Kreuzberg pp. 1304-1318

Henning Füller and Boris Michel

Urban Segregation and Metropolitics in Latin America: The Case of Bogotá, Colombia pp. 1319-1343

Joel Thibert and Giselle Andrea Osorio

Relating a City's History and Geography with Bourdieu: One Hundred Years of Spatial Distinction in Tel Aviv pp. 1344-1362

Nathan Marom

Gendered Nature and Urban Culture: The Dialectics of Gated Developments in Izmir, Turkey pp. 1363-1383

Ayona Datta

Housing Preferences of Temporary Migrants in Urban China in the wake of Gradual Hukou Reform: A Case Study of Shenzhen pp. 1384-1398

Eddie Chi Man Hui, Ka Hung Yu and Yinchuan Ye

Urban Geographies of Hesitant Transition: Tracing Socioeconomic Segregation in Post-Ceauşescu Bucharest pp. 1399-1417

Szymon Marcińczak, Michael Gentile, Samuel Rufat and Liviu Chelcea

Integration and Control: The Governing of Urban Marginality in Western Europe pp. 1418-1436

Justus Uitermark

The Institution of Hukou-based Social Exclusion: A Unique Institution Reshaping the Characteristics of Contemporary Urban China pp. 1437-1457

Mingqiong Zhang, Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu and Chris Nyland

Remaking Equality: Community Governance and the Politics of Exclusion in Bogota's Public Spaces pp. 1458-1475

Juan Pablo Galvis

Policing Urban Natures: Conservation Officer Work in Ottawa and Toronto, Canada pp. 1476-1490

Kevin Walby and Chris Hurl

Gentrifier? Who, Me? Interrogating the Gentrifier in the Mirror pp. 1491-1508

John Joe Schlichtman and Jason Patch

‘We Are Here Alone’: The Ironic Potentials and Vulnerabilities of Mixed (Up) Districts in Central Jakarta pp. 1509-1524

Abdoumaliq Simone

Jane Jacobs' ‘Cities First’ Model and Archaeological Reality pp. 1525-1535

Michael E. Smith, Jason Ur and Gary M. Feinman

Karina Pallagst, Thorsten Wiechmann and Cristina Martinez-Fernandez (eds.) 2010: Shrinking Cities: International Perspectives and Policy Implications. New York: Routledge. Margaret Dewar and June Manning Thomas (eds.) 2012: The City after Abandonment. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Mark Binelli 2013: The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant. London: The Bodley Head pp. 1536-1539

Alan Mace

Brent D. Ryan 2012: Design after Decline: How America Rebuilds its Shrinking Cities. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press pp. 1539-1540

Alan Mallach

Rupa Huq 2013: On the Edge: The Contested Cultures of Suburbia. London: Lawrence & Wishart pp. 1541-1542

Susanne Frank

Maria Jose Zapata Campos and C. Michael Hall (eds.) 2013: Organising Waste in the City. International Perspectives on Narratives and Practices. Bristol: Policy Press pp. 1542-1544

Francisco Calafate-Faria

Marc Doussard 2013: Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labour Market. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 1544-1545

Linda McDowell

Matthias Bernt, Britta Grell and Andrej Holm (eds.) 2013: The Berlin Reader. A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag pp. 1546-1547

Allan Cochrane

Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Kendron Thomas (eds.) 2011: Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala. Durham, NC: Duke University Press pp. 1547-1548

Katherine Sobering

Anne Rademacher 2011: Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu. Durham, NC: Duke University Press pp. 1549-1550

Nikhil Anand

Volume 38, issue 3, 2014

The ‘Urban Age’ in Question pp. 731-755

Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid

LGBT Neighbourhoods and ‘New Mobilities’: Towards Understanding Transformations in Sexual and Gendered Urban Landscapes pp. 756-772

Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray

Racialization and Rescaling: Post-Katrina Rebuilding and the Louisiana Road Home Program pp. 773-790

Kevin Fox Gotham

Understanding Urban Processes in Flint, Michigan: Approaching ‘Subaltern Urbanism’ Inductively pp. 791-804

Seth Schindler

A Springtime Journey to the Soviet Union: Postwar Planning and Policy Mobilities through the Iron Curtain pp. 805-822

Ian R. Cook, Stephen V. Ward and Kevin Ward

Macau Metropolis and Mental Life: Interior Urbanism and the Chinese Imaginary pp. 823-842

Tim Simpson

Glorified Fantasies and Masterpieces of Deception on Importing Las Vegas into the ‘New South Africa’ pp. 843-863

Albert S. Fu and Martin J. Murray

Urban Governance and the ‘European City’: Ideals and Realities in Dublin, Ireland pp. 864-885

Philip Lawton and Michael Punch

Panama as Palimpsest: The Reformulation of the ‘Transit Corridor’ in a Global Economy pp. 886-902

Thomas J. Sigler

The Changing Nature of Border, Scale and the Production of Hong Kong's Water Supply System since 1959 pp. 903-921

Nelson K. Lee

The Politics of Property in Planning: Hezbollah's Reconstruction of Haret Hreik (Beirut, Lebanon) as Case Study pp. 922-934

Mona Fawaz

Whose Right to Jerusalem? pp. 935-950

Gillad Rosen and Anne B. Shlay

Relational Comparison and LGBTQ Activism in European Cities pp. 951-966

Jon Binnie

The Rise of Ethnicity under China's Market Reforms pp. 967-984

Jiaping Wu

Let Their Voices Be Seen: Exploring Mental Mapping as a Feminist Visual Methodology for the Study of Migrant Women pp. 985-1002

Hyunjoo Jung

Competing Visions of Community: Empowerment and Abandonment in the Governance of Coalfield Regeneration pp. 1003-1018

Heike Doering

Incoherence and Tension in Culture-Led Redevelopment pp. 1019-1036

Vanessa Mathews

Introduction: Towards a Political Understanding of New Ruins pp. 1037-1046

Daryl Martin

Ruinopolis: Post-Imperial Theory and Learning from Las Vegas pp. 1047-1068

Julia Hell and George Steinmetz

The New Ruins of Ireland? Unfinished Estates in the Post-Celtic Tiger Era pp. 1069-1080

Rob Kitchin, Cian O'Callaghan and Justin Gleeson

The Political Economy of Urban Ruins: Redeveloping Shanghai pp. 1081-1091

Xuefei Ren

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere: The Kiev Park of Memory and Post-Soviet Urbanism in Context pp. 1092-1101

Owen Hatherley

Translating Space: the Politics of Ruins, the Remote and Peripheral Places pp. 1102-1119

Daryl Martin

Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne (eds.) 2012: Urban Theory beyond the West. A World of Cities. London and New York: Routledge pp. 1120-1121

Jeremy Seekings

William M. Rohe 2011: The Research Triangle. From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press pp. 1121-1123

Allan Cochrane

Lukasz Stanek 2011: Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press pp. 1123-1124

Silke Steets

Daniel Silver and Carl Grodach (eds.) 2013: The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy. Global Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge pp. 1124-1125

Janet Merkel

Alice Mah 2012: Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place: Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline. Toronto: University of Toronto Press pp. 1126-1127

Tim Strangleman

Andrew Ross 2011: Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City. New York: Oxford University Press pp. 1127-1128

Roger Keil

Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler and Gayatri A. Menon (eds.) 2011: Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press pp. 1128-1130

Yunpeng Zhang

Ayona Datta 2012: The Illegal City. Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement. Aldershot: Ashgate pp. 1130-1131

Anant Maringanti

Volume 38, issue 2, 2014

Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities pp. 379-392

Andrew Karvonen and Bas Heur

Experiments and Counter-Experiments in the Urban Laboratory of Water- Supply Partnerships in India pp. 393-412

Govind Gopakumar

‘Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Lower Your Carbon Footprint!’ — Urban Laboratories and the Governance of Low-Carbon Futures pp. 413-430

James Evans and Andrew Karvonen

Planning and Experimental Knowledge Production: Zeche Zollverein as an Urban Laboratory pp. 431-449

Philipp Dorstewitz

Houses of Experiment: Modern Housing and the Will to Laboratorization pp. 450-470

Ignaz Strebel and Jane M. Jacobs

Neighborhood as Spatial Project: Making the Urban Order on the Downtown Brooklyn Waterfront pp. 471-497

David J. Madden

Analysing Place and Place-making: Urbanization in Suburban Oslo pp. 498-515

Per Gunnar Røe

The Violence of Abstract Space: Contested Regional Developments in Southern Mexico pp. 516-538

Japhy Wilson

Politics in the Informalizing Metropolis: Displacement, Resettlement and Unstable Negotiations in Uncivil Ahmedabad pp. 539-557

Caleb Johnston

Urbanizing Refuge: Interrogating Spaces of Displacement pp. 558-572

Romola Sanyal

The ‘Graying’ of ‘Green’ Zones: Spatial Governance and Irregular Settlement in Xochimilco, Mexico City pp. 573-589

Jill Wigle

Paying for Pipes, Claiming Citizenship: Political Agency and Water Reforms at the Urban Periphery pp. 590-608

Malini Ranganathan

Law, Property and Ambiguity: The Uses and Abuses of Legal Ambiguity in Remaking Istanbul's Informal Settlements pp. 609-627

Tuna Kuyucu

Stepping out of the Twilight? Assessing the Governance Implications of Land Titling and Regularization Programmes pp. 628-645

Lucy Earle

How Do Squatters Deal with the State? Legalization and Anomalous Institutionalization in Madrid pp. 646-674

Miguel A. Martínez

Preface to a Debate on ‘Street Music’, Urban Ethnography and Ghettoized Communities pp. 675-676

Simon Parker

Hip-Hop as Urban and Regional Research: Encountering an Insider's Ethnography of City Life pp. 677-685

David Beer

Rebels Without a Pause: Hip-hop and Resistance in the City pp. 686-694

Martin Lamotte

Hip-hop and Urban Studies pp. 695-699

Rivke Jaffe

‘Street Music’, Urban Ethnography and Ghettoized Communities pp. 700-705

Simon Black

Hip-hop Urbanism Old and New pp. 706-715

Michael P. Jeffries

John Flint and Mike Raco (eds.) 2012: The Future of Sustainable Cities: Critical Reflections. Bristol: Policy Press pp. 716-717

Patsy Healey

Colin McFarlane and Michael Waibel (eds.) 2012: Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal. London: Ashgate pp. 717-720

Mirjam Lewek

George Galster 2012: Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press pp. 720-721

Robert Beauregard

Godefroy Desrosiers-Lauzon 2011: Florida's Snowbirds: Spectacle, Mobility, and Community since 1945. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press pp. 722-723

Margarethe Kusenbach

Javier Auyero 2012: Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press pp. 723-725

Julie-Anne Boudreau

Earthea Nance 2012: Engineers and Communities: Transforming Sanitation in Contemporary Brazil. Lanham: Lexington Books pp. 725-727

Eduardo Marques

Jane Zavisca 2012: Housing the New Russia. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press pp. 727-728

Michael Gentile

Stephen J. Collier 2011: Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics. Princeton: Princeton University Press pp. 728-730

Mark Usher

Volume 38, issue 1, 2014

Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local pp. 1-13

Gavin Shatkin

‘One-Man Handled’: Fragmented Power and Political Entrepreneurship in Globalizing Mumbai pp. 14-35

Liza Weinstein

Becoming a Slum: From Municipal Colony to Illegal Settlement in Liberalization-Era Mumbai pp. 36-59

Lisa Björkman

Conflict and Commensuration: Contested Market Making in India's Private Real Estate Development Sector pp. 60-78

Llerena Guiu Searle

Wild Dragons in the City: Urban Political Economy, Affordable Housing Development and the Performative World-making of Economic Models pp. 79-97

Brett Christophers

Beyond the Global City Concept and the Myth of ‘Command and Control’ pp. 98-115

Richard G. Smith

Reinterpreting the Meaning of the ‘Singapore Model’: State Capitalism and Urban Planning pp. 116-137

Gavin Shatkin

Feeling like a State: Design Guidelines and the Legibility of ‘Urban Experience’ in Singapore pp. 138-154

Kah-Wee Lee

Diversification by Urbanization: Tracing the Property-Finance Nexus in Dubai and the Gulf pp. 155-175

Michelle Buckley and Adam Hanieh

Delivering Flagship Projects in an Era of Regulatory Capitalism: State-led Privatization and the London Olympics 2012 pp. 176-197

Mike Raco

City of Rents: The limits to the Barcelona model of urban competitiveness pp. 198-217

Greig Charnock, Thomas F. Purcell and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz

How Did Finance Capital Infiltrate the World of the Urban Poor? Homeownership and Social Fragmentation in a Spanish Neighborhood pp. 218-235

Jaime Palomera

The Financial Crisis and the Hegemony of Urban Neoliberalism: Lessons from Frankfurt am Main pp. 236-255

Sebastian Schipper

Canada's Housing Bubble Story: Mortgage Securitization, the State, and the Global Financial Crisis pp. 256-284

Alan Walks

Urban Responses to The Economic Crisis: Confirmation of Urban Policies as Crisis Management in Malmö pp. 285-301

Ståle Holgersen

When Mayors Go Global: International Strategies, Urban Governance and Leadership pp. 302-317

Vincent Beal and Gilles Pinson

The Only Way Is Up? Ordinary Topologies of Ramallah pp. 318-335

Christopher Harker

Architecture, Economic Imaginaries and Urban Politics: The Office Tower as Socially Classifying Device pp. 336-359

Monika Grubbauer

Colin McFarlane 2011: Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Swati Chattopadhyay 2012: Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 360-363

Christine Hentschel

Emily Talen 2012: City Rules. How Regulations Affect Urban Form. Washington, DC: Island Press pp. 363-365

Linda Zuijderwijk

Zachary P. Neal 2013: The Connected City: How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis. New York and London: Routledge pp. 365-366

Anirban Pal

Daniel A. Bell and Avner de-Shalit 2011: The Spirit of Cities. Why Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age. Oxford: Princeton University Press pp. 366-368

Oleg Pachenkov

Gareth Millington 2011: ‘Race’, Culture and the Right to the City: Centres, Peripheries, Margins. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave MacMillan pp. 368-370

Suzanne M. Hall

Diana Mitlin and David Satterthwaite 2013: Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature. London and New York: Routledge pp. 370-371

Mary Lawhon

Daniel M. Goldstein 2012: Outlawed: Between Rights and Security in a Bolivian City. Durham, NC: Duke University Press pp. 372-373

Jorge C. Derpic

Xuefei Ren 2013: Urban China. Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 373-374

Zhijiao Wang