International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 32, issue 4, 2008

The New Mega‐Projects: Genesis and Impacts pp. 759-767

Fernando Diaz Orueta and Susan S. Fainstein

Mega‐projects in New York, London and Amsterdam pp. 768-785

Susan S. Fainstein

Old Mega‐Projects Newly Packaged? Waterfront Redevelopment in Toronto pp. 786-803

Ute Lehrer and Jennefer Laidley

From Annankatu to Antinkatu: Contracts, Development Rights and Partnerships in Kamppi, Helsinki pp. 804-814

Anne Haila

The Politics of Urban Waterfront Regeneration: The Case of Haliç (the Golden Horn), Istanbul pp. 815-840

Dikmen Bezmez

The Urban Question Revisited: The Importance of Cities for Social Movements pp. 841-859

Walter J. Nicholls

Legal Expertise and the Rights of Cross‐Border Workers: Action Group Skills in relation to European Integration pp. 860-881

Philippe Hamman

Dimensions of Atypical Forms of Employment in Thessaloniki, Greece pp. 882-902

Stelios Gialis and Eleutheria Karnavou

New Spaces for Inclusion? Lessons from the ‘Three‐Thirds’ Partnerships in Wales pp. 903-921

Gillian Bristow, Tom Entwistle, Frances Hines and Steve Martin

Stating the Production of Scales: Centrally Orchestrated Regionalism, Regionally Orchestrated Centralism pp. 922-941

John Harrison

Implementing Social and Environmental Policies in Cities: The Case of Food Policy in Vancouver, Canada pp. 942-967

Wendy Mendes

Transitory Sites: Mapping Dubai's ‘Forgotten’ Urban Spaces pp. 968-988

Yasser Elsheshtawy

Writing the Lines of Connection: Unveiling the Strange Language of Urbanization pp. 989-1027

Nathalie Boucher, Mariana Cavalcanti, Stefan Kipfer, Edgar Pieterse, Vyjayanthi Rao and Nasra Smith

Globalization, the City, and Civil Society in Pacific Asia: The Social Production of Civil Spaces – Edited by Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi pp. 1028-1030

John Friedmann

The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought – By Kian Tajbakhsh pp. 1030-1032

Robert A. Beauregard

Spaces of Global Cultures. Architecture, Urbanism, Identity – By Anthony D. King pp. 1032-1033

Ben Derudder

Cities in a Time of Terror. Space, Territory, and Local Resilience – By Hank V. Savitch pp. 1033-1035

Sophie Body‐Gendrot

The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage – By Phil Wood and Charles Landry pp. 1035-1036

Liette Gilbert

For Space – By Doreen Massey pp. 1036-1038

Eric Sheppard

Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations – Edited by Graham Harvey and Charles D. Thompson, Jr pp. 1038-1040

Bettina Ng'weno

Volume 32, issue 3, 2008

Local Governance as Government–Business Cooperation in Western Democracies: Analysing Local and Intergovernmental Effects by Multi‐Level Comparison pp. 531-547

Clemente J. Navarro Yáñez, Annick Magnier and M. Antonia Ramírez

Resurgent Metropolis: Economy, Society and Urbanization in an Interconnected World pp. 548-564

Allen Scott

An Unusual Clique of City‐Makers: Social Networks in the Production of a Neighborhood in Beirut (1950–75) pp. 565-585

Mona Fawaz

Urban Expansion and Industrial Nature: A Political Ecology of Toronto's Port Industrial District pp. 586-603

Gene Desfor and Lucian Vesalon

Recognizing Urban Public Space as a Co‐Educator: Children's Socialization in Ghent pp. 604-616

Sven de Visscher and Maria Bouverne‐ de Bie

Spaces of Modernity: Religion and the Urban in Asia and Africa pp. 617-630

Mary Hancock and Smriti Srinivas

The Sacred Geography of Bangkok's Markets pp. 631-642

Ara Wilson

Circuits of Secularity or the Aesthetics of Religion in an Age of Cities and Citations pp. 643-657

Mark Elmore

Crossroads of Religions: Shrines, Mobility and Urban Space in Goa pp. 658-670

Alexander Henn

Religion and Rehabilitation: Humanitarian Biopolitics, City Spaces and Acts of Religion pp. 671-689

Yasmeen Arif

Accra's Sounds and Sacred Spaces pp. 690-709

Marleen de Witte

Provocations on the Urban Question: Four Essays pp. 711-711

AbdouMaliq Simone

The Urban Question as Cargo Cult: Opportunities for a New Urban Pedagogy pp. 712-718

Rob Shields

Occupancy Urbanism: Radicalizing Politics and Economy beyond Policy and Programs pp. 719-729

Solomon Benjamin

Urban Interventions: Art, Politics and Pedagogy pp. 730-736

David Pinder

Aboriginal Cosmopolitanism pp. 737-744

Nigel Clark

Review Essay — Stopping Sprawl pp. 745-748

Jon C. Teaford

Gender, Place and the Labour Market – By Sarah Jenkins pp. 749-750

Adina Batnitzky

Roads to Post‐Fordism. Labour Markets and Social Structures in Europe – Edited by Max Koch pp. 750-751

Renata Semenza

Framing Strategic Urban Projects: Learning from Current Experiences in European Urban Regions – Edited by Willem Salet and Enrico Gualini pp. 751-753

Marisol Garcia

Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America – Edited by Anne Lambright and Elisabeth Guerrero pp. 753-754

Christien Klaufus

Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town – By Melissa Checker pp. 754-755

Julian Agyeman

Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment – By Andrew Kincaid pp. 756-757

Charles Travis

Volume 32, issue 2, 2008

Carceral Chicago: Making the Ex‐offender Employability Crisis pp. 251-281

Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore

The Chengzhongcun Land Market in China: Boon or Bane? — A Perspective on Property Rights pp. 282-304

Li Tian

Making Class Politics Possible: Organizing Contract Cleaners in London pp. 305-323

Jane Wills

Institutional Responses to EU Challenges: Attempting to Articulate a Local Regulatory Scale in Greece pp. 324-343

Ioannis Chorianopoulos

Exploring the Social Face of Urban Mobility: Daily Mobility as Part of the Social Structure in Spain pp. 344-362

Luis A. Camarero and Jesús Oliva

Political Infrastructures: Governing and Experiencing the Fabric of the City pp. 363-374

McFARLANE Colin and Jonathan Rutherford

Technologies of Government: Constituting Subjectivities, Spaces, and Infrastructures in Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta pp. 375-391

Michelle Kooy and Karen Bakker

Let's Drink to the Great Thirst! Water and the Politics of Fractured Techno‐natures in Sicily pp. 392-414

Ilaria Giglioli and Erik Swyngedouw

Governing the Contaminated City: Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial and Post‐Colonial Bombay pp. 415-435

McFARLANE Colin

‘Cold spots’ of Urban Infrastructure: ‘Shrinking’ Processes in Eastern Germany and the Modern Infrastructural Ideal pp. 436-451

Timothy Moss

The Role of Small Towns in Regional Development and Poverty Reduction in Ghana pp. 453-472

George Owusu

The Electoral Impact of Direct‐Democratic Practices pp. 473-491

Eva Anduiza, Joan Font, Pau Mas and Sergi de Maya

The Challenges of Pursuing Cluster Policy in the Congested State pp. 492-505

Alex Burfitt and Stewart Macneill

On Some Challenges and Conditions for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to be an Effective Economic Re‐activator pp. 506-517

Beatriz Plaza

Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture – By Simon Winlow and Steve Hall pp. 519-520

Mark Jayne

Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda – Edited by Rachel Bratt, Michael Stone and Chester Hartman pp. 520-522

Nigel Sprigings

Social Policy for the Twenty‐First Century – By Bill Jordan pp. 522-523

Barbara Da Roit

The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg, 1850–2000 – Edited by Peter Clark pp. 523-525

Robert Rotenberg

The Dynamics of Chinese Regional Development — Market Nature, State Nurture – By Jane Golley pp. 525-526

Yiping Fang

Urban Studies – Edited by Sujata Patel and Kushal Deb pp. 526-528

Liza Weinstein

Population Turnover and Area Deprivation – By Nick Bailey and Mark Livingston pp. 528-529

Reinout Kleinhans

Geographies of the New Economy: Critical Reflections – Edited by Peter W. Daniels, Michael J. Bradshaw, Jonathan Beaverstock and Andrew Leyshon pp. 529-530

Richard Le Heron

Volume 32, issue 1, 2008

Forging Glocal Governance? Urban Infrastructures as Networked Financial Products pp. 1-21

Morag I. Torrance

Mumbai's Development Mafias: Globalization, Organized Crime and Land Development pp. 22-39

Liza Weinstein

Uneven Development, Inter‐scalar Tensions, and the Politics of Decentralization in South Korea pp. 40-59

Bae‐gyoon Park

Polish Regions in the Age of a Knowledge‐based Economy pp. 60-85

Piotr Zientara

Plural Governance, Participation and Democracy in Cities pp. 87-94

Justin Beaumont and Walter Nicholls

Towards Radicalized Communicative Rationality: Resident Involvement and Urban Democracy in Rotterdam and Antwerp pp. 95-113

Justin Beaumont and Maarten Loopmans

Citizen Participation in a Mediated Age: Neighbourhood Governance in The Netherlands pp. 114-134

Justus Uitermark and Jan Willem Duyvendak

Building a Vision for the Post‐Apartheid City: What Role for Participation in Johannesburg's City Development Strategy? pp. 135-163

Barbara Lipietz

Participatory Budgeting in Europe: Potentials and Challenges pp. 164-178

Yves Sintomer, Carsten Herzberg and Anja Röcke

Debate on Gentrification pp. 179-179

AbdouMaliq Simone

Gentrification ‘Research’ and the Academic Nobility: A Different Class? pp. 180-185

Chris Allen

Comment on ‘The Eviction of Critical Perspectives from Gentrification Research’ pp. 186-191

Lance Freeman

A Response to ‘The Eviction of Critical Perspectives from Gentrification Research’ pp. 192-194

Kate Shaw

On ‘The Eviction of Critical Perspectives’ pp. 195-197

Neil Smith

Relocating Gentrification: The Working Class, Science and the State in Recent Urban Research pp. 198-205

Loïc Wacquant

The Only Class in Town? Gentrification and the Middle‐Class Colonization of the City and the Urban Imagination pp. 206-211

Paul Watt

‘A Literal Necessity to be Re‐Placed’: A Rejoinder to the Gentrification Debate pp. 212-223

Tom Slater

City Publics: The (Dis)enchantment of Urban Encounters – By Sophie Watson pp. 225-226

Tim Butler

Comparative Planning Cultures – Edited by Bishwapriya Sanyal pp. 227-228

Anirban Pal

Indian Industrial Clusters – Edited by Keshab Das pp. 228-230

Sarita Kamra

Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles – By Ivan Light pp. 231-231

Edward J.W. Park

Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets – By Harald Bauder pp. 232-233

Adina Batnitzky

Shadow Cities; a Billion Squatters, a New Urban World – By Robert Neuwirth pp. 233-235

David Satterthwaite

Privileged Places: Race, Residence and the Structure of Opportunity – By Gregory D. Squires and Charis E. Kubrin pp. 235-237

Jennifer Darrah

The Frightened Land: Land, Landscape and Politics in South Africa in the Twentieth Century – By Jennfier Beningfield pp. 237-238

Yonn Dierwechter