International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

1997 - 2025

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

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Volume 44, issue 6, 2020

Assisted Self‐help Housing in Mexico: Advocacy, (Micro)Finance and the Making of Markets pp. 947-966

Monika Grubbauer

Informal Property Rights as Relational and Functional: Unravelling the Relational Contract in China's Informal Housing Market pp. 967-988

Mengzhu Zhang and Shenjing He

Sister Communities: Rejecting Labels of Informality and Peripherality in Vanuatu pp. 989-1005

Jennifer Day

Painted Bullet Holes and Broken Promises: Understanding and Challenging Municipal Dispossession in London's Public Housing ‘Decanting’ pp. 1007-1022

Mara Ferreri

Paradigm Shifts in Social Housing after Welfare‐State Transformation: Learning from the German Experience pp. 1023-1040

Barbara Schönig

The Role of Traders and Small Businesses in Urban Social Movements: The Case of London's Workspace Struggles pp. 1041-1056

Myfanwy Taylor

Corruption as Infrastructure: Rendering the New Saigon Global pp. 1057-1071

Hun Kim

Space Grabs: Colonizing the Vertical City pp. 1072-1082

Ju Tjung Liong, Helga Leitner, Eric Sheppard, Suryono Herlambang and Wahyu Astuti

Shrinking Cities, Shrinking Households, or Both? pp. 1083-1095

Maxwell Hartt and Jason Hackworth

Brian Jefferson 2020: Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press pp. 1096-1097

Lucas Melgaço

João H. Costa Vargas 2018: The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press pp. 1097-1099

Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti

Sophie Watson 2019: City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water. London: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 1099-1100

Anke Schwarz

Aidan Mosselson 2019: Vernacular Regeneration: Low‐income Housing, Private Policing, and Urban Transformation in Inner‐city Johannesburg. New York: Routledge pp. 1100-1103

Martin Murray

Maxim Trudolyubov 2018: The Tragedy of Property: Private Life, Ownership and the Russian State. Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 1103-1104

Anna Zhelnina

Sai Balakrishnan 2019: Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations along Urban Corridors in India. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press pp. 1104-1106

Neha Sami

Volume 44, issue 5, 2020

Cities, Creativities and Urban Creative Economies: Re‐descriptions and Make+Shifts from Sub‐Saharan Africa pp. 781-792

Jenny Mbaye and Andy C. Pratt

The Creative Night‐Time Leisure Economy of Informal Drinking Venues pp. 793-808

Andrew Charman and Thiresh Govender

Infrastructure Disruption in ‘Silicon Savannah’: Exploring the Idea of the Creative Class and their Relation to Quality of Place in Nairobi, Kenya pp. 809-820

Lauren Rosenberg and Alan Brent

Creative Cities, Graffiti and Culture‐Led Development in South Africa: Dlala Indima (‘Play Your Part’) pp. 821-840

Rike Sitas

Identity Building Through Mediation by African Tailors pp. 841-856

Sofia Vilarinho and Henri Christiaans

The (Re)Making of Polycentricity in China's Planning Discourse: The Case of Tianjin pp. 857-875

Weikai Wang, Ya Ping Wang and Keith Kintrea

A Missing Citizen? Issue Based Citizenship in City‐Regional Planning pp. 876-893

Jouni Häkli, Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and Olli Ruokolainen

From Territorial Cohesion to Regional Spatial Justice: The Well‐Being of Future Generations Act in Wales pp. 894-912

Rhys Jones, Bryonny Goodwin‐Hawkins and Michael Woods

Debate on Margaret Kohn's The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth pp. 913-916

Theresa Enright

Locating the Commons in the Urban Commonwealth pp. 917-920

Theresa Enright

Kohn's Social Democratic Alternative: A Critical Comment pp. 921-923

Mariana Valverde

Gentrification and Urban Justice pp. 924-928

Mark Kingwell

The City Into Theory: Theory in Toronto pp. 929-933

Roger Keil

Author Response pp. 934-937

Margaret Kohn

Raquel Rolnik 2019: Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance. London: Verso Books pp. 938-939

Desiree Fields

John G. Stehlin 2020: Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press pp. 940-941

Mimi Sheller

Josh Seim 2020: Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering. Oakland, CA: University of California Press pp. 942-943

Daniela Krüger

Alberto Veira‐Ramos, Tetiana Liubyva and Evgenii Golovakha (eds.) 2020: Ukraine in Transformation: From Soviet Republic to European Society. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer pp. 943-945

Kostyantyn Mezentsev

AMO / Rem Koolhaas(ed.) 2020: Countryside: A Report. Cologne: Taschen pp. 945-946

Nitin Bathla

Volume 44, issue 4, 2020

Lively Lands: The Spatial Reproduction Squeeze and the Failure of the Urban Imaginary pp. 561-581

D. Asher Ghertner

Subaltern Urbanization: Indian Insights for Urban Theory pp. 582-598

Partha Mukhopadhyay, Marie‐Hélène Zérah and Eric Denis

The Real Estate Frontier pp. 599-616

Tom Gillespie

‘The Miracle of Density': The Socio‐material Epistemics of Urban Densification pp. 617-635

Federico Pérez

Who Builds Cities in China? How Urban Investment and Development Companies Have Transformed Shanghai pp. 636-651

Yanpeng Jiang and Paul Waley

Popular Urbanization: Conceptualizing Urbanization Processes Beyond Informality pp. 652-672

Monika Streule, Ozan Karaman, Lindsay Sawyer and Christian Schmid

The Green Masterplan: Crisis, State Transition and Urban Transformation in Post‐Genocide Rwanda pp. 673-690

Shakirah Esmail Hudani

Urban Ecological Enclosures: Conservation Planning, Peri‐urban Displacement, and Local State Formations in China pp. 691-710

Jesse Rodenbiker

Urban Commoning as a Vehicle Between Government Institutions and Informality: Collective Gardening Practices in Tampere and Narva pp. 711-729

Tarmo Pikner, Krista Willman and Ari Jokinen

Tracing the Provenance of Urbanist Ideals: A Critical Analysis of The Quito Papers pp. 731-742

Philip Lawton

Capturing the City pp. 743-754

Robbie Peters

(Non)Urban Humans: Questions for a Research Agenda (the Work the Urban Could Do) pp. 755-767

Abdoumaliq Simone

Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw (eds.) 2019: How To Run a City Like Amazon and Other Fables. London: Meatspace Press James Ash, Rob Kitchin and Agnieszka Leszczynski (eds.) 2019: >Digital Geographies. London: Sage David Beer 2019: The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception. London: Sage pp. 769-771

Jeremy Williams

Marco Z. Garrido 2019: The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press pp. 771-773

Liza Weinstein

Alisha C. Holland 2017: Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 773-775

Omar Pereyra

K. Murat Güney, Roger Keil and Murat Üçoğlu (eds.) 2019: Massive Suburbanization: (Re)Building the Global Periphery. Toronto: University of Toronto Press pp. 775-776

Joris Sebastiaan Gort

Federico Ferretti 2018: Anarchy and Geography: Reclus and Kropotkin in the UK. London: Routledge pp. 777-777

Hamish Kallin

Clive Barnett 2017: The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press pp. 778-779

Alan Latham

Volume 44, issue 3, 2020

Reeling in Newcomers: Urban Competition around Migrant Reception in Brussels pp. 395-414

Eva Swyngedouw

The Right to Rent: Active Resistance to Evolving Geographies of State Regulation pp. 415-428

Joe Crawford, Kim Mckee and Sharon Leahy

The Familiar Face of the State: Affect, Emotion and Citizen Entitlements in Dehradun, India pp. 429-446

Tanya Jakimow

Securing Urban Frontiers: A View from Yangon, Myanmar pp. 447-468

Jasnea Sarma and James D. Sidaway

Stretching the Border: Shopping, Petty Trade and Everyday Life Experiences in the Polish–Ukrainian Borderland pp. 469-483

Bianca B. Szytniewski, Bas Spierings and Martin Van Der Velde

Family Arrangements and Children's Education Among Migrants: A Case Study of China pp. 484-504

Youqin Huang, Zai Liang, Qian Song and Ran Tao

Interlocking Lives: Employment Mobility and Family Fixity in Three Gentrifying Neighbourhoods of Montreal pp. 505-520

Steven High, Lysiane Gervais Goulet, Michelle Duchesneau and Dany Guay‐Bélanger

Boundary Work: Becoming Middle Class in Suburban Dar es Salaam pp. 521-536

Claire Mercer

Riffing Off Kevin Cox: Thinking through Comparison pp. 537-539

Allan Cochrane

Rethinking the European Exception pp. 540-542

Gilles Pinson

Not Exceptional, Just Different: A View from South Africa pp. 543-545

Alison Todes

Wrestling with Capital and Class in US Cities pp. 546-548

Richard Walker

Responses and Challenges pp. 549-550

Kevin R. Cox

Alan Mallach 2018: The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in America. Washington, DC: Island Press pp. 551-552

Robert A. Beauregard

Barbara Ransby 2018: Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty‐First Century. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press pp. 552-554

Mae A. Miller

Mustafa Dikeç 2018: Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press pp. 554-556

Nazem Tahvilzadeh

Kerry Ryan Chance (2017): Living Politics in South Africa's Urban Shacklands. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press pp. 556-557

Erik Bähre

Licia do Prado Valladares 2019: The Invention of the Favela. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press pp. 557-559

Michael Harloe

Volume 44, issue 2, 2020

An Ethnographic Perspective on Urban Planning in Brazil: Temporality, Diversity and Critical Urban Theory pp. 185-199

Martijn Koster

Geographies of Algorithmic Violence: Redlining the Smart City pp. 200-218

Sara Safransky

The Shrinking City as a Growth Machine: Detroit's Reinvention of Growth through Triage, Foundation Work and Talent Attraction pp. 219-247

Lisa Berglund

Neoliberal Urban Planning Through Social Government: Notes on the Demographic Re‐engineering of Malmö pp. 248-265

Johan Pries

Urban Entrepreneurialism Vs Market Society: The Geography of China's Neoliberal Urbanism pp. 266-288

Yongshen Liu and Yung Yau

Entrepreneurship and Social Capital: Examining the Association in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods pp. 289-309

Nick Williams, Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson

The Limits of Homeownership: Racial Capitalism, Black Wealth, and the Appreciation Gap in Atlanta pp. 310-328

Scott N. Markley, Taylor J. Hafley, Coleman A. Allums, Steven R. Holloway and Hee Cheol Chung

Tent City: Patterns of Informality and the Partitioning of Sacramento pp. 329-348

Cory Parker

An Improvised Dispositif: Invisible Urban Planning in the Refugee Camp pp. 349-365

Lucas Oesch

Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola pp. 366-383

Claudia Gastrow

John Flint and Ryan Powell (eds.) 2019: Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work. London: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 384-385

Kim McKee

Brendan Murtagh 2019: Social Economics and the Solidarity City. New York: Routledge pp. 386-387

Matthew Thompson

Jonathan Foster 2018: Stigma Cities: The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press pp. 388-389

Aysegul Can

Paolo Boccagni 2017: Migration and the Search for Home: Mapping Domestic Space in Migrants’ Everyday Lives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 389-390

Caroline Wanjiku Kihato

Matthew Vitz 2018: A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City. Durham, NC: Duke University Press pp. 390-391

Creighton Connolly

Hiba Bou Akar 2018: For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press pp. 392-392

Kristin V. Monroe

Nick Estes 2019: Our History Is the Future. London: Verso Books pp. 393-394

Katharine Baldwin and Chris Reimer

Volume 44, issue 1, 2020

Bogotá's Left Turn: Counter‐Neoliberalization in Colombia pp. 1-17

Kent Eaton

The Urbanization of Nature in a (Post)Socialist Metropolis: An Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening pp. 18-37

Petr Gibas and Irena Boumová

The State as Both Regulator and Player: The Politics of Transfer of Development Rights in China pp. 38-54

Zinan Shao, Jiang Xu, Calvin King Lam Chung, Tejo Spit and Qun Wu

Ecological Gentrification in Response to Apocalyptic Narratives of Climate Change: The Production of an Immuno‐political Fantasy pp. 55-71

Earl T. Harper

Contesting Eco‐Urbanism from Below: The Construction of ‘Zero‐Waste Neighborhoods’ in Chinese Cities pp. 72-89

George C.S. Lin and Shih‐Yang Kao

Contaminant, Commodity and Fuel: A Multi‐sited Study of Waste's roles in Urban Transformations from Italy to Austria pp. 90-107

Ingrid Behrsin and Salvatore Paolo De Rosa

Sowing Seeds of Displacement: Gentrification and Food Justice in Oakland, CA pp. 108-123

Alison Hope Alkon and Josh Cadji

Alternatives to Resistance? Comparing Depoliticization in Two British Environmental Movement Scenes pp. 124-144

Joost de Moor

Contradictions of the Climate‐Friendly City: New Perspectives on Eco‐Gentrification and Housing Justice pp. 145-165

Jennifer L. Rice, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Joshua Long and Jason R. Jurjevich

Is Comparative Gentrification Possible? Sceptical Voices from Hong Kong pp. 166-172

David Ley and Sin Yih Teo

Neil Brenner 2019: New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question. New York: Oxford University Press pp. 173-174

Michele Acuto

Andy Pike, Peter O'Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower and John Tomaney 2019: Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure. Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar pp. 175-175

Elliott Sclar

Vincent Mosco 2019: The Smart City in a Digital World. Bingley: Emerald Publishing pp. 176-177

Gerald Sussman

Brett Story 2019: Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 178-179

Brandon Hillier and Max Cohen

Amita Bhide and Himanshu Burte (eds.) 2018: Urban Parallax: Policy and the City in Contemporary India. Delhi: Yoda Press pp. 180-180

Xuefei Ren

Guillermo Jajamovich 2018: Puerto Madero in Motion [Puerto Madero en Movimiento]. Buenos Aires: Teseo pp. 181-181

Jacob Lederman