International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 36, issue 6, 2012

From Los Angeles to Shanghai: Testing the Applicability of Five Urban Paradigms pp. 1127-1145

Cathy Liu

Conflicting Green Landscape Ideologies in a Tai Rural Town in Thailand pp. 1146-1165

Sirima Tongsupa Nasongkhla and Sidh Sintusingha

Uneven Access to Local Power: Entrepreneurial Domination in the Design of Local Development in Chihuahua, Mexico pp. 1166-1182

Ayli̇n Topal

Participatory Budgeting in Italy: An Analysis of (Almost Democratic) Participatory Governance Arrangements pp. 1183-1203

Matteo Bassoli

Emergent Transnational Spaces: Meat, Sweat and Global (Re)Production in the Heartland pp. 1204-1222

Faranak Miraftab

The Dynamics of Multifaceted Gentrification: A Comparative Analysis of the Trajectories of Six Neighbourhoods in the Île-de-France Region pp. 1223-1241

Luca Pattaroni, Vincent Kaufmann and Marie-Paule Thomas

A Tale of Two Cities: Climate Change Policies in Vancouver and Melbourne — Barometers of Cooperative Federalism? pp. 1242-1267

Stephen Jones

Rescaling Europe: Effects of Single European Market Regulations on Localized Networks of Governance in Land Development pp. 1268-1287

Tuna Taşan-Kok and Willem Korthals Altes

Economic Development, Social Inclusion and Urban Governance: The Case of the City-Region of Ottawa in Canada pp. 1288-1305

Caroline Andrew and David Doloreux

Patterns of Population Growth in Peri-Urban Accra, Ghana pp. 1306-1325

Petra Doan and Charles Yaw Oduro

Urban Population Development in Europe, 1991–2008: The Examples of Poland and the UK pp. 1326-1348

Nadja Kabisch, Dagmar Haase and Annegret Haase

Kamal Siddiqui, Jamshed Ahmed, Kaniz Siddique, Sayeedul Huq, Abul Hossain, Shah Nazimud-Doula and Nahid Rezawana 2010: Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985–2005. A Longitudinal Study of Society in a Third World Megacity. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. Shahadat Hossain 2011: Urban Poverty in Bangladesh. Slum Communities, Migration and Social Integrations. London: I.B. Tauris (Library of Development Studies, 3) pp. 1349-1353

Volker Kreibich

Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong (eds.) 2011: Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global. Malden, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (Studies in Urban and Social Change) pp. 1353-1355

Christine Hentschel

Victoria A. Beard, Faranak Miraftab and Christopher Silver (eds.) 2008: Planning and Decentralization — Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South. New York: Routledge pp. 1355-1357

Eduardo Marques

David Sims 2011: Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City out of Control. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press pp. 1357-1358

Bedour Ahmad

Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters and Jennifer Holdaway 2008: Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. New York and Cambridge, MA: Russell Sage Foundation and Harvard University Press pp. 1358-1359

Maritsa V. Poros

Japonica Brown-Saracino 2009: A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press pp. 1359-1361

Margarethe Kusenbach

Stephen Syrett and David North 2008: Renewing Neighbourhoods: Work, Enterprise and Governance. Bristol: The Policy Press pp. 1361-1363

André Ouwehand

Stephen Halebsky 2009: Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores. Plymouth: Lexington Books pp. 1363-1364

Laura Pottinger

Volume 36, issue 5, 2012

Circulation of Security Models in Southern African Cities: Between Neoliberal Encroachment and Local Power Dynamics pp. 877-889

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Sophie Didier and Elisabeth Peyroux

The Spread of a Transnational Model: ‘Gated Communities’ in Three Southern African Cities (Cape Town, Maputo and Windhoek) pp. 890-914

Marianne Morange, Fabrice Folio, Elisabeth Peyroux and Jeanne Vivet

The Spreading of the City Improvement District Model in Johannesburg and Cape Town: Urban Regeneration and the Neoliberal Agenda in South Africa pp. 915-935

Sophie Didier, Elisabeth Peyroux and Marianne Morange

Local Politics and the Circulation of Community Security Initiatives in Johannesburg pp. 936-957

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Laurent Fourchard and Alex Wafer

Social Networks, Segregation and Poverty in São Paulo pp. 958-979

Eduardo Marques

Pathways out of Homelessness in Los Angeles and Tokyo: Multilevel Contexts of Limited Mobility amid Advanced Urban Marginality pp. 980-1006

Matthew D. Marr

Whose Paradise? Itinerant Street Vendors' Individual and Collective Practices of Political Agency in the Tourist Streets of Cusco, Peru pp. 1007-1021

Griet Steel

The Transformation of the ‘Barcelona Model’: An Analysis of Culture, Urban Regeneration and Governance pp. 1022-1038

Mónica Degen and Marisol García

Interpretative Flexibility of the Event-City: Security, Branding and Urban Entrepreneurialism at the European Football Championships 2008 pp. 1039-1052

Francisco R. Klauser

Contracts and Learning in Complex Urban Projects pp. 1053-1075

Menno van der Veen and Willem Korthals Altes

How Portugal Became an ‘Unplanned Country’: A Critique of Scholarship on Portuguese Urban Development and Planning pp. 1076-1092

Idalina Baptista

Common Trends and Linkages in the US Manufacturing Sector, 1969–2000 pp. 1093-1111

Luis Lanaspa, Irene Olloqui Cuartero and Fernando Sanz Garcia

Adrian Franklin 2010: City Life. London: Sage Publications. Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw (eds.) 2010: Circulation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Jeremy W. Crampton and Stuart Elden (eds.) 2007: Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography. Aldershot: Ashgate pp. 1112-1116

Martina Löw

Manuel B. Aalbers 2011: Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons pp. 1116-1117

Gregory D. Squires

Thomas A. Hutton 2008: The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the Twenty-first-century Metropolis. Abingdon, New York: Routledge pp. 1117-1119

Paul Watt

Ruben Hernandez-Leon 2008: Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press pp. 1119-1120

Jael Vizcarra

Pierre Clavel 2010: Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press pp. 1120-1121

James DeFilippis

Asef Bayat 2009: Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press pp. 1121-1123

Marilena Liguori

Agata Anna Lisiak 2010: Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press pp. 1123-1124

Claire Colomb

Kate Swanson 2010: Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces. Athens, GA and London: The University of Georgia Press pp. 1124-1126

Sarah A. Radcliffe

Volume 36, issue 4, 2012

Mobilities and Mobilizations of the Urban Poor pp. 643-654

Rivke Jaffe, Christien Klaufus and Freek Colombijn

Mobilizing to Stay Put: Housing Struggles in New York City pp. 655-673

Marianne Maeckelbergh

Talkin' 'bout the Ghetto: Popular Culture and Urban Imaginaries of Immobility pp. 674-688

Rivke Jaffe

The Symbolic Dimension of Mobility: Architecture and Social Status in Ecuadorian Informal Settlements pp. 689-705

Christien Klaufus

Urban Poverty, Spatial Representation and Mobility: Touring a Slum in Mexico pp. 706-724

Eveline Dürr

Fixed in Mobility: Young Homeless People and the City pp. 725-741

Emma Jackson

Moving from Great Love: Gendered Mobilities in a Post-Tsunami Relocation Neighborhood in Aceh, Indonesia pp. 742-756

Annemarie Samuels

Housing Finance Reform and Increasing Socioeconomic Segregation in Mexico pp. 757-772

Paavo Monkkonen

‘Troubled Assets’: The Financial Emergency and Racialized Risk pp. 773-790

Philip Ashton

Shaky Palaces? Analyzing Property Values and their Appreciation in Minority First Suburbs pp. 791-816

Katrin B. Anacker

Revisiting the Ungovernability Debate: Regional Governance and Sprawl in the USA and UK pp. 817-830

Carol Hager

Border Wars: Tax Revenues, Annexation, and Urban Growth in Phoenix pp. 831-859

Carol E. Heim

Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century – By Leif Jerram; Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915 – By Jessica Ellen Sewell pp. 860-864

Agata Anna Lisiak

Between the Social and the Spatial. Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Poverty and Social Exclusion – Edited by Katrien De Boyser, Caroline Dewilde, Danielle Dierckx and Jürgen Friedrichs pp. 864-865

Martin Kronauer

The Just City – By Susan S. Fainstein pp. 865-867

Sharon Zukin

Making Competitive Cities – Edited by Sako Musterd and Alan Murie pp. 867-868

Joshua Akers

Constructions of Neoliberal Reason – By Jamie Peck pp. 868-871

Patrick Le Galès

Thinking Planning and Urbanism – By Beth Moore Milroy pp. 871-872

Patsy Healey

Urban Foreign Policy and Domestic Dilemmas. Insights from Swiss and EU City-Regions – By Nico van der Heiden pp. 873-874

Swen Hutter

Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China – By Xufei Ren pp. 874-875

Leslie Sklair

Volume 36, issue 3, 2012

Extraordinary Cities: Early ‘City-ness’ and the Origins of Agriculture and States pp. 415-447

Peter J. Taylor

How the People of Butembo (RDC) were Chosen to Embody ‘the New Congo’: Or What the Appearance of a Poster in a City's Public Places can Teach about its Social Tissue pp. 448-461

Kristien Geenen

Recreative City: Amsterdam, Vehicular Ideas and the Adaptive Spaces of Creativity Policy pp. 462-485

Jamie Peck

Towards a ‘Consensual’ Urban Politics? Creative Planning, Urban Sustainability and Regional Development pp. 486-503

Rob Krueger and Susan Buckingham

Artistic Urbanization: Creative Industries and Creative Control in Beijing pp. 504-521

Xuefei Ren and Meng Sun

Creativity and Social Innovation: What Can Urban Policies Learn from Sectoral Experiences? pp. 522-538

Carlos Oliveira and Isabel Breda-Vázquez

Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Spaces of Multiplicity in Cusco, Peru pp. 539-553

Mary Lawhon and Miriam Chion

Exploring the Metropolitan Trap: The Case of Montreal pp. 554-567

Mariona Tomàs

Between Spectacle and Banality: Trajectories of Islamic Radicalism in a Karachi Neighbourhood pp. 568-584

Nichola Khan

Women, Work and Public Spaces: Conflict and Coexistence in Karachi's Poor Neighborhoods pp. 585-605

Kamran Asdar Ali

Spectacular Urbanization amidst Variegated Geographies of Globalization: Learning from Abu Dhabi's Trajectory through the Lives of South Asian Men pp. 606-627

Robina Mohammad and James D. Sidaway

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow – By Nicholas Blomley; Sidewalks. Conflict and Negotiations over Public Space – By Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht pp. 628-631

Saskia Binken

Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America – By Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert pp. 631-633

Gretchen Purser

Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial–Spatial Divide – By Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo pp. 633-634

Richard P. Taub

Whose Urban Renaissance? An International Comparison of Urban Regeneration Strategies – Edited by Libby Porter and Kate Shaw pp. 634-636

Marisol García

Bringing Outsiders In. Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation – Edited by Jennifer L. Hochschild and John H. Mollenkopf pp. 636-637

Henrik Lebuhn

The Europeanization of Cities: Policies, Urban Change and Urban Networks – Edited by Alexander Hamedinger and Alexander Wolffhardt pp. 637-639

Charlotte Halpern

Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond – By Jennifer A. Jordan pp. 639-641

Julia Binder

Youth and the City in the Global South – Edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen pp. 641-642

Susann Baller

Volume 36, issue 2, 2012

Shrinking Cities: Urban Challenges of Globalization pp. 213-225

Cristina Martinez‐fernandez, Ivonne Audirac, Sylvie Fol and Emmanuèle Cunningham‐sabot

Declining Suburbs in Europe and Latin America pp. 226-244

Ivonne Audirac, Emmanuèle Cunningham‐sabot, Sylvie Fol and Sergio Torres Moraes

The Shrinking Mining City: Urban Dynamics and Contested Territory pp. 245-260

Cristina Martinez‐fernandez, Chung‐tong Wu, Laura K. Schatz, Nobuhisa Taira and José G. Vargas‐hernández

Urban shrinkage in Germany and the USA: A Comparison of Transformation Patterns and Local Strategies pp. 261-280

Thorsten Wiechmann and Karina M. Pallagst

The ‘Housing Question’ and the State‐Socialist Answer: City, Class and State Remaking in 1950s Bucharest pp. 281-296

Liviu Chelcea

Rendering Istanbul's Periodic Bazaars Invisible: Reflections on Urban Transformation and Contested Space pp. 297-314

Özlem Öz and Mine Eder

Securing the Majority: Living through Uncertainty in Jakarta pp. 315-335

Abdoumaliq Simone and Vyjayanthi Rao

Microcitizenships: Fractious Forms of Urban Belonging after Argentine Neoliberalism pp. 336-362

Ryan Centner

Fractures in Meta‐Narratives of Development: An Interpretive Institutionalist Account of Land Use Development in the Boston City‐Region pp. 363-380

David Gibbs and Rob Krueger

Ain't about Politics? The Wicked Power‐Geometry of Sydney's Greening Governance pp. 381-399

Michele Acuto

Zimbabwe's Exodus: Crisis, Migration, Survival – Edited by Jonathan Crush and Daniel Tevera; Surviving on the Move: Migration, Poverty and Development in Southern Africa – Edited by Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne pp. 400-402

Yonn Dierwechter

The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China – By You‐Tien Hsing pp. 402-403

Chris Pickvance

Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro – By Janice Perlman pp. 403-404

Jacinto Cuvi

Ghetto Urbain. Ségrégation, Violence, Pauvreté en France Aujourd'hui – By Didier Lapeyronnie pp. 405-407

Rainer Neef

New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration – Edited by Douglas S. Massey pp. 408-409

Min Zhou

City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation – By Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron pp. 409-411

Robert Beauregard

Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life – Edited by Karen A. Franck and Quentin Stevens pp. 411-412

Ana Aceska

Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World: Selected Essays – Edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden pp. 412-414

Kanishka Goonewardena

Volume 36, issue 1, 2012

Stretching Urban Renaissance: Privatizing Space, Civilizing Place, Summoning ‘Community’ pp. 1-28

Gordon Macleod and Craig Johnstone

Separate and Unequal: The Consumption of Public Education in Post‐Katrina New Orleans pp. 29-48

Joshua M. Akers

Targeted Assistance and Social Capital: Housing Policy in Chile's Neoliberal Democracy pp. 49-70

Paul W. Posner

Neoliberalization of the Developmental State: Tokyo's Bottom‐Up Politics and State Rescaling in Japan pp. 71-89

Takashi Tsukamoto

Neoliberal Experiments with Urban Infrastructure: The Cross City Tunnel, Sydney pp. 90-105

Graham Haughton and Phil McManus

The Changing Meaning of Community Space: Two Models of NGO Management of Community Gardens in New York City pp. 106-120

Efrat Eizenberg

The Encroachment of Value Pragmatism on Pluralism: The Practice of the Valuation of Urban Green Space Using Stated‐preference Approaches pp. 121-135

Alex Lo

When Life Itself is War: On the Urbanization of Military and Security Doctrine pp. 136-155

Stephen Graham

Rethinking the Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Economic Geography: Introduction to a Debate pp. 156-157

Dragos Simandan

Path Dependence: A Political Economy Perspective pp. 158-165

Stijn Oosterlynck

Beyond Lock‐in versus Evolution, towards Punctuated Co‐evolution: On Ron Martin's ‘Rethinking Regional Path Dependence’ pp. 166-171

Jan Drahokoupil

Options for Moving beyond the Canonical Model of Regional Path Dependence pp. 172-178

Dragos Simandan

(Re)Placing Path Dependence: A Response to the Debate pp. 179-192

Ronald Martin

In Search of Paradise: Middle‐Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis – By Li Zhang. Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives – Edited by Fulong Wu and Chris Webster pp. 193-196

John Friedmann

Gated Communities in China: Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life – By Choon‐Piew Pow pp. 196-197

Rowland Atkinson

Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities – By Andrew Hurley pp. 197-199

John Hans I. Gilderbloom and Abu M. Sufiyan

Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing – By James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge pp. 199-201

Heidi M.R. Reijm

The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life – Edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin M. Kruse pp. 201-203

Leeke Reinders

Political Branding in Cities. The Decline of Machine Politics in Bogotá, Naples, and Chicago – By Eleonora Pasotti pp. 203-204

Gilles Pinson

How it Works: Recovering Citizens in Post‐Welfare Philadelphia – By Robert P. Fairbanks pp. 204-206

Desiree Fields

Needed by Nobody. Homelessness and Humanness in Post‐Socialist Russia – By Tova Höjdestrand pp. 206-207

Elitza Stanoeva