International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 46, issue 6, 2022

EDUCATION REFORM AND FINANCIALIZATION: Making the Fiscal Crisis of the Schools pp. 911-932

Stephanie Farmer and Rachel Weber

THE DISTINCTIVE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO pp. 933-953

Alejandra Reyes and Patricia Basile

URBAN NOSTALGIA, REGENERATION, AND CULTURAL MONOPOLY RENT: ‘Nanjing 1912’ and Its Branding Bubbles pp. 954-972

Cassidy I‐Chih Lan and Jianglong Chen

MISSING OLDER ADULTS IN A GENTRIFYING DOWNTOWN: Detroit's Rebrand for a Young and Talented Pool of Residents pp. 973-997

Lisa Berglund, Julie Mah, Tam Perry and Patricia Rencher

BETWEEN CHAI AND QIAN: How Unfinishedness and Ruination Have Reshaped Urbanity in China's ‘Coal Capital’ after the Construction Boom pp. 998-1015

Judith Audin

INSURGENT HERITAGE: Mobilizing Memory, Place‐based Care and Cultural Citizenships pp. 1016-1034

Magdalena Novoa

URBAN CELEBRATION IN A BRAZILIAN FAVELA: From an Art Festival to a Youth Movement pp. 1035-1053

Antonio Moya‐Latorre

GENTRIFICATION IN TOKYO: Formation of the Tokyo West Creative Industry Cluster pp. 1055-1077

Tetsuo Kidokoro, Ryo Fukuda and Kojiro Sho

Volume 46, issue 5, 2022

ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL LABORATORY: Modernity, Cultural Revival, and Architectural Experiment in Peri‐urban China pp. 729-748

Junxi Qian and Yanheng Lu

THE STATE OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Waste Valorization in Hong Kong and Rotterdam pp. 749-765

Viktor Wildeboer and Federico Savini

A TERRITORIAL PERSPECTIVE ON URBAN AND REGIONAL ENERGY TRANSITIONS: Shifting Power Densities in the Berlin‐Brandenburg Region pp. 766-783

Benedikt Walker

THE SCALAR ARRHYTHMIA OF LGBTQ2S SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES: An Analysis of the Peripheral Municipalities of a ‘Progressive’ City‐region pp. 784-806

Alison L. Bain and Julie A. Podmore

THE PRACTICE OF INFORMALITY: Hustling, Anticipating and Refusing in the Postindustrial City pp. 807-821

Tali Ziv

CRITICAL URBAN PEDAGOGY: Convites as Sites of Southern Urbanism, Solidarity Construction and Urban Learning pp. 822-844

Catalina Ortiz and Gynna Millan

UN/DOING FUTURE, UNSETTLING TEMPORALIZATION pp. 845-850

Silvy Chakkalakal and Julie Ren

CITY OF REPAIR: Practicing the Future in Mexico City pp. 851-864

Julie‐Anne Boudreau

THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction pp. 865-873

Salomón González‐Arellano

FUTURE OF A DYING RIVER: Bureaucratic Practices and Negotiated Plans of the Yamuna Riverfront pp. 874-884

Yogita Naruka

WHERE IS THE FUTURE? Geography, Expectation and Experience across Three Decades of Malaysia's Vision 2020 pp. 885-895

Tim Bunnell

URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy pp. 896-905

Hanna Hilbrandt and Fritz‐Julius Grafe

Volume 46, issue 4, 2022

In This Issue … pp. 500-501

Liza Weinstein

THE PERFORMATIVITY OF METROPOLIZATION: How Material‐Discursive Practices Institutionalize the Prague Metropolitan Region pp. 502-521

Alena Coblence and Luděk Sýkora

BORDER CONTROL: The Territorial Politics of Policy Experimentation in Chinese Border Cities pp. 522-541

Xiaobo Su and Yi Miao

THE URBAN LAB: Imaginative Work in the City pp. 542-557

Sabrina Rahmawan‐Huizenga and Dara Ivanova

TEMPORAL POLITICS AND INJUSTICE IN MEGA URBANIZATION: Lessons from Yangzhou, China pp. 558-575

Yunpeng Zhang

LANDSCAPES ON HOLD: Opening up Monopoly Rent Gaps on Crete's Cape Sidero pp. 576-593

Ioanna P. Korfiati

‘LET'S BEAT CRIME TOGETHER’: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi pp. 594-613

Laurent Gayer and Sophie Russo

TRANSFORMED SECURITY PRACTICES: Informalization in the Production of Hegemony and Place pp. 614-630

Valeria Guarneros‐Meza and Alke Jenss

THE INFORMAL CONSTITUTION OF STATE CENTRALITY: Governing Street Businesses in (Post‐)Pandemic Chengdu, China pp. 631-650

Yi Jin and Yimin Zhao

ENDURING HARM: Unlikely Comparisons, Slow Violence and the Administration of Urban Injustice pp. 651-659

Nikhil Anand, Bethany Wiggin, Lalitha Kamath and Pranjal Deekshit

RESTORING A RIVER, RE‐STORYING HISTORY pp. 660-673

Bethany Wiggin

AMBIVALENT GOVERNANCE AND SLOW VIOLENCE IN MUMBAI'S MITHI RIVER pp. 674-686

Lalitha Kamath and Anushri Tiwari

TOXICITY 1: On Ambiguity and Sewage in Mumbai's Urban Sea pp. 687-697

Nikhil Anand

TOXICITY 2: The Violence of Thresholds in Philadelphia pp. 698-710

Tathagat Bhatia

AFTER THE RIGHT TO WATER: Rethinking the State and Justice in Mumbai pp. 711-720

Pranjal Deekshit and Simran Sumbre

CODA: The Racial Ecologies of Urban Wetlands pp. 721-724

Malini Ranganathan

Volume 46, issue 3, 2022

In This Issue … pp. 340-341

Hyun Bang Shin

MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction pp. 342-369

Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Katherine V. Gough, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, Crispin Kinabo, Michael Clarke Shand, Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues and Paul W.K. Yankson

A SHADOWY ‘CITY OF LIGHT’: Private Urbanism, Large‐Scale Land Acquisition and Dispossession in Ghana pp. 370-386

Austin Dziwornu Ablo and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

THEORY FROM EMPTY LAND: Informal Commoning Outside/Within Economies and Ecologies of the Urban pp. 387-404

Asa Roast

CONTENTIOUS POLITICS OF SLUMS: Understanding Different Outcomes of Community Resistance against Evictions in Rio de Janeiro pp. 405-423

Celina Myrann Sørbøe and Einar Braathen

LIFE AFTER RESETTLEMENT IN URBAN CHINA: State‐led Community Building as a Reterritorialization Strategy pp. 424-440

Zheng Wang

Promoting Social Sustainability of Urban Neighbourhoods: The Case of Bethnal Green, London pp. 441-465

M. Reza Shirazi, Ramin Keivani, Sue Brownill and Georgia Butina Watson

FROM HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE: English‐language Media Outlets and Urban Planning Best Practices in the Global South pp. 466-479

Ryan Anders Whitney

URBAN SHRINKAGE IN CHINA, THE USA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC: A Comparative Multilevel Governance Perspective pp. 480-496

Kai Zhou, Jaroslav Koutský and Justin B. Hollander

Volume 46, issue 2, 2022

URBAN WATERLINES: Socio‐natural Productions of Indifference in an Indian City pp. 160-181

Karen Coelho

FROM THE SANITARY CITY TO THE CIRCULAR CITY? Technopolitics of Wastewater Restructuring in Los Angeles, California pp. 182-201

Valentin Meilinger and Jochen Monstadt

THE ZOONOTIC CITY: Urban Political Ecology and the Pandemic Imaginary pp. 202-219

Matthew Gandy

BOTANIC URBANISM: The Technopolitics of Controlled Environments in Singapore's Gardens by the Bay pp. 220-234

Donald McNeill

AIMING FOR THE ‘GREEN’: (Post)Colonial and Aesthetic Politics in the Design of a Purified Gated Environment pp. 235-252

Devra Waldman

NORMALIZING URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM THROUGH SLY DE‐POLITICIZATION: City Centre Development in Gothenburg and Stockholm pp. 253-268

Nils Hertting, Catharina Thörn and Mats Franzén

SECTION 106, VIABILITY, AND THE DEPOLITICIZATION OF ENGLISH LAND VALUE CAPTURE POLICY pp. 269-286

Chris Foye

YIMBYISM AND THE HOUSING CRISIS IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES: A Critical Reflection pp. 287-295

Eliot Tretter and Rich Heyman

SAYING ‘YES’ TO WHAT?: YIMBY and Urban Redevelopment in Chicago pp. 296-300

Winifred Curran

PRO‐GROWTH ETHOS MEDIATED BY RACE: No YIMBY, No Zoning and the Housing Crisis in Houston pp. 301-306

Jeffrey S. Lowe and Assata Richards

PLANNERS’ ALCHEMY ACHIEVED? HOW NIMBY AND YIMBY REPRODUCE THE HOUSING QUESTION pp. 307-311

Benjamin F. Teresa

YIMBYISM, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE REMAKING OF RACE AND CLASS COALITIONS IN AUSTIN, TX pp. 312-318

Eliot Tretter, Elizabeth J. Mueller and Rich Heyman

YIMBY: The Latest Frontier of Gentrification pp. 319-330

Elvin Wyly

YIMBYISM THEN AND NOW pp. 331-335

Robert W. Lake

Volume 46, issue 1, 2022

Chris Pickvance (1944–2021) pp. 4-5

Michael Harloe

In this Issue… pp. 6-7

Liza Weinstein

A RADICAL‐RIGHT POPULIST DEFINITION OF CROSS‐NATIONAL REGIONALISM IN EUROPE: Shaping Power Geometries at the Regional Scale Beyond State Borders pp. 8-25

Christian Lamour

FANTASY ISLAND: Paul Romer and the Multiplication of Hong Kong pp. 26-49

Nina Ebner and Jamie Peck

IMAGINARIES AND EXPULSION: How 1,000 Temporary Accommodation Units for Refugees in the City of Gothenburg Became 57 pp. 50-64

Kristina Grange

BORDERING, DIFFERENTIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE UK pp. 65-81

Burcu Toğral Koca

EVERYDAY ROMA STIGMATIZATION: Racialized Urban Encounters, Collective Histories and Fragmented Habitus pp. 82-100

Remus Cretan, Petr Kupka, Ryan Powell and Václav Walach

Democratic Public or Populist Rabble: Repositioning the City amidst Social Fracture pp. 101-114

Juan J. Rivero, Luisa Sotomayor, Juliana M. Zanotto and Andrew Zitcer

INSURGENT PLANNING IN PANDEMIC TIMES: The Case of Rio de Janeiro pp. 115-125

Abigail Friendly

Disaster Colonialism: A Commentary on Disasters beyond Singular Events to Structural Violence pp. 126-135

Danielle Zoe Rivera

TOWARDS GREEN POPULISM? Right‐wing Populism and Metropolization in Switzerland pp. 136-156

Ander Audikana and Vincent Kaufmann