International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

1997 - 2025

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

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Volume 22, issue 4, 1998

Introduction: Congealed time, compressed place; roots and branches of urban symbolic ecology pp. 545-549

Peter J.M. Nas

Reminiscences of the relief of Leiden: a total ritual event pp. 550-564

Peter J.M. Nas and Anja Roymans

Canberra: a sheep in wolf’s clothing pp. 565-581

Freek Colombijn

Monuments in the winds of change pp. 582-588

Bozidar Ježernik

Political tuning in Ankara, a capital, as reflected in its urban symbols and images pp. 589-601

Aygen Erdentuǧ and Berrak Burçak

Esfahan’s gardens and mosques: on the instrumentality of symbols as a means of retaining urban identity pp. 602-613

Soheila Shahshahani

Transformations of a city centre in the light of ideologies: the case of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia pp. 614-622

Alexandra Bitušíková

State‐society relations and national development: a comparison of Argentina and Taiwan in the 1990s pp. 623-642

Fernando Javier Bosco

Migration transition or migration transformation in the Asian dragon economies? pp. 643-663

Allan M. Findlay, Huw Jones and Gillian M. M. Davidson

Conditions for spatial segregation: some European perspectives pp. 665-673

Sako Musterd and Mariïılle De Winter

Research Planning Group on International Tourism and Urban Restructuring in Comparative Perspective, April 1998 pp. 674-675

David F. Gladstone, Lily M. Hoffman and Mariïılle De Winter

The origins of the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies, or the advantages of owning the title and having charitabe status in the running of journals pp. 676-678

Chris Pickvance

Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS): the first three years pp. 679-682

Ray Pahl

Volume 22, issue 3, 1998

The Genesis of the High Technology Milieu: A Study in Complexity pp. 361-377

Elizabeth Garnsey

‘Fourth World’ Cities in the Global Economy: The Case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia pp. 378-393

Gavin Shatkin

Environment‐Related Litigation in Rio de Janeiro: Shaping Frames for a New Social Problem pp. 394-407

Mario Fuks

The Political Economy of Urban Land Reforms in a Post‐Colonial State pp. 408-424

Ambe J. Njoh

Local Impacts of the Post‐Mao Development Strategy: The Case of the Zhujiang Delta, Southern China pp. 425-442

Qihao Weng

Social Conditions and Economic Performance: The Bond Between Social Structure and Regional Growth in Western Europe pp. 443-459

Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose

Urban Conflict and Social Movements in Poor Countries: Theory and Evidence of Collective Action pp. 460-481

John Walton

Regulations and Governance in European Cities pp. 482-506

Patrick Le Galès

Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto’ pp. 507-510

Ceri Peach

How ‘Bad’ Is It?: Institutions and Intentions in the Study of the American Ghetto pp. 511-520

Sharon Zukin

Volume 22, issue 2, 1998

Symbolic Use of Globalization in Urban Politics in Tokyo pp. 183-194

Takashi Machimura

Globalization and the Corporations: The Case of the California Fortune 500 pp. 195-215

Leslie Sklair

Development Peculiarities of Peripheral Desert Settlements: The Case of Israel pp. 216-232

Boris A. Portnov and Evyatar Erell

The New Urban Left: Parties Without Actors pp. 233-244

Henri Lustiger‐Thaler and Eric Shragge

Informal Commerce: Expansion and Exclusion in the Historic Centre of the Latin American City pp. 245-263

Rosemary D. F. Bromley

Developing Alteratives: Energy, Offices and the Environment pp. 264-282

Simon Guy

(Re)Reading the ‘Loft Living’Habitus in Montréal's Inner City pp. 283-302

Julie Podmore

The Immoral Economy of Housing in Turkey pp. 303-307

Ayse Bugra

Improving or Endangering Housing Policies? Recent Changes in the Dutch Housing Allowance Scheme pp. 319-330

Hugo Priemus

Reflections on Berlin: The Meaning of Construction and the Construction of Meaning pp. 331-338

Peter Marcuse

Volume 22, issue 1, 1998

IJURR: looking back twenty‐one years later pp. i-iv

Michael Harloe, Enzo Mingione, Chris Pickvance and Edmond Preteceille

Policy Statement pp. v-viii

Patrick Le Galès, Susan Fainstein and Linda McDowell

Metropolitan government and governance in western countries: a critical review pp. 9-25

Christian Lefèvre

Industrial and regional restructuring and changing form of state intervention: the development of partnerships in postwar Japan pp. 26-41

Seiko Kitajima

The long‐term unemployed, informal economic activity and the ‘underclass’ in Belfast: rejecting or reinstating the work ethic pp. 42-59

Madeleine Leonard

Economic restructuring and state intervention in Holdenist suburbia: understanding urban poverty in Australia pp. 60-75

Ian Winter and Lois Bryson

Privatizing the commons: reforming the ejido and urban development in Mexico pp. 76-93

Gareth A. Jones and Peter M. Ward

Evaluation of urban land supply policy in Iran pp. 94-105

Mohammad Mehdi Azizi

Reflective images: the case of urban regeneration in Glasgow and Bilbao pp. 106-121

María V. Gómez

The Green Revolution, agrarian productivity and labor pp. 122-135

Raju J. Das

South Africa’s New Housing Policy: An Assessment of the First Two Years, 1994–96 pp. 137-146

Mary R. Tomlinson

Think‐Tanks, Consultancies and Urban Policy in the UK pp. 147-155

Ken Warpole

International Network for Urban Research and Action Conference on Possible Urban Worlds, Zurich, June 1997 pp. 156-159

Barbara Loevinger Rahder

Response to Loïc J.D. Wacquant’s ‘Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto’ pp. 160-163

Paul A. Jargowsky

Volume 21, issue 4, 1997

China focus pp. 535-535

Michael Harloe

The Hong Kong Government’s Strategy for Promoting Home Ownership — An Approach to Reducing the Decommodifying Effects of Public Housing Services pp. 537-553

Sam Wai Kam Yu

The Rise of Manufacturing Towns: Externally Driven Industrialization and Urban Development in the Pearl River Delta of China pp. 554-568

Irene Eng

The Third China? Emerging industrial districts in rural China pp. 569-588

Brad Christerson and Constance Lever‐Tracy

Urban transportation in Shanghai, China: problems and planning implications pp. 589-606

Qing Shen

The sexual division of care in mainland China and Hong Kong pp. 607-619

Sam Wai Kam Yu and Ruby Chui Man Chau

Uneven development and beyond: regional development theory in post‐Mao China pp. 620-639

C. Cindy Fan

Urban restructuring in China’s emerging market economy: towards a framework for analysis pp. 640-663

Fulong Wu

Urban redevelopment and grassroots action in Chicago and Sheffield: themes, variations and uncertain legacies pp. 664-676

Larry Bennett

Dutch Urban Policy: a promising perspective for the big cities pp. 677-690

Hugo Priemus, Peter Boelhouwer and Helen Kruythoff

Botshabelo: coping with the consequences of urban apartheid pp. 691-705

Richard Tomlinson and Skip Krige

Ghettos real and imagined: a historical comment on Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Three pernicious premises in the study of the American ghetto’ pp. 706-711

Kenneth L. Kusmer

Urban Theory in the Age of Pluralism and Complexities: Modern or Postmodern? Comment on Leontidou pp. 712-714

Xing Quan Zhang

Humpty Dumpty’s ontological allegory: response to Zhang’s Comment pp. 715-718

Lila Leontidou

Volume 21, issue 3, 1997

Introduction pp. 401-405

Ovsey Shkaratan

The Elite of St Petersburg as Seen by the City Inhabitants pp. 406-424

Valery Golofast, Tatiana Protassenko and Oleg Bozhkov

St Petersburg's Progress Towards the Market pp. 425-429

Alexei Kudrin

Transformation of Local Power Elites: the Institutionalization of Social Movements in St Petersburg pp. 430-444

Alexander Duka

Dynamics of the Standard of Living in St Petersburg during Five Years of Economic Reform pp. 445-453

Tatiana Protassenko

Deviant Behaviour in St Petersburg pp. 454-466

Yakov Gilinskiy

Dirt: Symbolic and Practical Dimensions of Social Problems in St Petersburg pp. 467-479

Jussi Simpura and Galina Eremitcheva

Through a Glass Darkly: Investigating the St Petersburg Administration pp. 481-503

Rosemary Mellor

Uses and Misuses of Concepts in American Social Science Research: Variations on Loïic Wacquant's Theme of ‘Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto’ pp. 504-507

Herbert J. Gans

Wacquant in the Argentine Slums: Comment on Loïic Wacquant's ‘Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto’ pp. 508-511

Javier Auyero

Volume 21, issue 2, 1997

Space Traders: Reregulation, Property Companies and Auckland's Office Market, 1975–94 pp. 165-179

Zoltan Moricz and Laurence Murphy

Flexibilization through Metropolis: The Case of Postfordist Seoul, Korea pp. 180-201

Myung‐Rae Cho

Cheap Labor Strategies and Export‐Oriented Industrialization: Some Lessons from the Los Angeles/East Asia Apparel Connection pp. 202-217

Richard P. Appelbaum and Brad Christerson

Consumption and the City, Modern and Postmodern pp. 218-237

David B. Clarke

The Effects of Industry Governance on Offshore Oil Development in the Gulf of Mexico pp. 238-258

Vern Baxter

The Emergence of Post‐Suburban Landscapes on the North Coast of New South Wales: A Case Study of Contested Space pp. 259-287

Stephen J. Essex and Graham P. Brown

The Marketization of Local Services and the Fragmentation of Labour Markets pp. 286-302

Kevin Doogan

Revisiting Informal‐Sector Home Ownership: The Relevance of Household Composition for Housing Options of the Poor pp. 303-322

Faranak Miraftab

The Cultural Economy of Cities pp. 323-339

Allen Scott

Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto pp. 341-353

Loïc J. D. Wacquant

Comment on Loïc J. D. Wacquant, ‘Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto’ pp. 354-356

Michael B. Katz

The Specificity of the Chicago Ghetto: Comment on Wacquant's ‘Three Pernicious Premises’ pp. 357-362

Janet Abu‐Lughod

Conference on Globalization and Collective Action, Santa Cruz, May 1996 pp. 363-365

Pierre Hamel and Henri Lustiger‐Thaler

Habitat II Conference on Human Settlements, Istanbul, June 1996 pp. 366-372

Ivan Tosics

The Milos Seminar: Space, Inequality And Difference: from ‘Radical’ to ‘Cultural’ Formulations?, August 1996 pp. 373-377

Olivier Kramsch

Book Reviews pp. 379-387

Dario Rei, Desmond King, Gabriel Dupuy and Bernhard Hoeper

Shorter Reviews pp. 389-393

Stephen Graham, Mike Geddes, Jack Thomas and Ruben Hernandez‐Leon

Volume 21, issue 1, 1997

Value, Exchange and the Social Economy: Framework and Paradigm Shift in Urban Policy pp. 7-22

David Fasenfest, Penelope Ciancanelli and Laura A. Reese

The Division of Labour, Capitalism and Socialism: An Alternative to Sayer pp. 23-37

Jamie Gough and Aram Eisenschitz

'Out' in The Valley pp. 38-62

Ann Forsyth

French Cultural Decentralization and International Expansion.Towards a Geometrically Variable Interculturalism? pp. 63-74

Emmanuel Négrier

The Changing ‘Face’ of the Suburbs: Issues of Ethnicity and Residential Change in Suburban Vancouver pp. 75-99

Brian K. Ray, Greg Halseth and Benjamin Johnson

Post‐Thatcherite Urban Planning and Politics: a Major Change? pp. 100-116

Philip Allmendinger and Mark Tewdwr‐Jones

‘Old age’ and Ageism in Urban Research: The Case of Fear of Crime pp. 117-128

Rachel H. Pain

Reply to Gough and Eisenschitz pp. 129-132

Andrew Sayer

Market‐Oriented Housing Policy: A Contradiction In Terms. Recent Dutch Experiences pp. 133-142

Hugo Priemus

Book reviews pp. 143-150

Hartmut HäuBermann, Neil Brenner, Chris Pickvance and Kuniko Fujita

Shorter reviews pp. 153-156

Jeremy Seekings, Peter Marcuse, P.W. Daniels and Sophie Body‐Gendrot