International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 43, issue 6, 2019

‘I am Burj Khalifa’: Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Toponymic Commodification and the Worlding of Dubai pp. 1014-1027

Maral Sotoudehnia and Reuben Rose‐Redwood

Placing Arts Districts within Markets: A Case Study of 798 Arts District in Beijing pp. 1028-1045

Amy Y. Zhang

Writing on the Wall: Street Art in Graffiti‐free Singapore pp. 1046-1063

T.C. Chang

Street Performance, Public Space, and the Boundaries of Urban Desirability: The Case of Living Statues in Barcelona pp. 1064-1084

Avi Astor

Fear and Loathing (of others): Race, Class and Contestation of Space in Washington, DC pp. 1085-1105

Brandi Thompson Summers and Kathryn Howell

Making Violence Public: Spatializing (Counter)publicness through the 1993 Sivas Arson Attack, Turkey pp. 1106-1122

Eray Çaylı

Reassembling Lesseps Square, Rethinking Barcelona: A More‐than‐Human Approach pp. 1123-1147

Brais Estévez

Publics and their Problems: Notes on the Remaking of the South Bank, London pp. 1148-1167

Alan Latham and Jack Layton

Playing with the Rules of the Game: Social Innovation for Urban Transformation pp. 1168-1192

Matthew Thompson

Muslim Hoedowns, Tenuous Language and the Uncertain Lives of an Urban Majority pp. 1193-1208

AbdouMaliq Simone

Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh and Bart Wissink (eds.) 2017: Cities and the Super‐Rich: Real Estate, Elite Practices, and Urban Political Economies. New York: Palgrave pp. 1209-1210

Chris Hamnett

John Harrison and Michael Hoyler (eds.) 2018: Doing Global Urban Research. Los Angeles: SAGE pp. 1210-1212

Monika Streule

Ross Exo Adams 2019: Circulation and Urbanization. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi and Singapore: Sage pp. 1212-1214

Jacob Forrest

AbdouMaliq Simone 2019: Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South. Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 1214-1215

Anthony Johnson

Koenraad Bogaert 2018: Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press pp. 1215-1217

Mona Fawaz

Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini (eds.) 2019: The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress. New York: New York University Press pp. 1217-1218

Andrew E.G. Jonas

Volume 43, issue 5, 2019

Hamburg's Spaces of Danger: Race, Violence and Memory in a Contemporary Global City pp. 816-832

Key MacFarlane and Katharyne Mitchell

‘Get out of Traian Square!’: Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Timişoara, Romania pp. 833-847

Remus Cretan and Thomas O'brien

Experiences of Urban Militarism: Spatial Stigma, Ruins and Everyday Life pp. 848-869

Silvia Pasquetti

The Neighbourhood in Pieces: The Fragmentation of Local Public Space in a Swedish Housing Area pp. 870-887

Mattias Kärrholm and Johan Wirdelöv

Residents’ Responses to ‘Territorial Stigmatization’: Visual Research in Berlin pp. 888-913

Cécile Cuny

Embedded Enclaves: Cultural Mimicry and Urban Social Exclusion in Iran pp. 914-929

Manata Hashemi

The Nomad, The Squatter and the State: Roma Racialization and Spatial Politics in Italy pp. 930-946

Gaja Maestri

Ethnic Disparities in Neighbourhood Selection: Understanding the Role of Income pp. 947-962

Rory Coulter and William A.V. Clark

The Spatial Pattern of Residential Mobility in Guangzhou, China pp. 963-982

Si‐Ming Li and Sanqin Mao

Welcoming Refugees and the Cultural Wealth of Cities: Intersections of Urban Development and Refugee Humanitarianism pp. 983-999

Jake Watson

Martin J. Murray 2017: The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty‐First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 1000-1001

Roger Keil

Samuel Stein 2019: Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. London: Verso pp. 1001-1003

Erin McElroy

Jan Lin 2019: Taking Back the Boulevard: Art, Activism, and Gentrification in Los Angeles. New York: New York University Press pp. 1003-1005

Walter Nicholls

Martin Jones 2019: Cities and Regions in Crisis: The Political Economy of Sub‐National Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar pp. 1005-1006

Donald Planey

Maureen M. Donaghy 2018: Democratizing Urban Development: Community Organizations for Housing across the United States and Brazil. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press pp. 1007-1008

Benjamin H. Bradlow

Rosalind Fredericks 2018: Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Durham, NC: Duke University Press pp. 1008-1010

Colin McFarlane

Gokçe Günel 2019: Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press pp. 1011-1012

Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría

Volume 43, issue 4, 2019

Recombinant Urbanization: Agrarian–urban Landed Property and Uneven Development in India pp. 617-632

Sai Balakrishnan

Accumulation without Dispossession? Land Commodification and Rent Extraction in Peri‐urban China pp. 633-648

Karita Kan

Legal Technologies of Primitive Accumulation: Judicial Robbery and Dispossession‐by‐Restitution in Warsaw pp. 649-665

Joanna Kusiak

How Subordinate Financialization Shapes Urban Development: The Rise and Fall of Warsaw's Służewiec Business District pp. 666-684

Mirjam Büdenbender and Manuel B. Aalbers

Financialization, Urban Governance and the Planning System: Utilizing ‘Development Viability’ as a Policy Narrative for the Liberalization of Ireland's Post‐Crash Planning System pp. 685-704

Richard Waldron

Lisbon After the Crisis: From Credit‐fuelled Suburbanization to Tourist‐driven Gentrification pp. 705-723

Iago Lestegás

New Geographies of Residential Capitalism: Financialization of the Turkish Housing Market Since the Early 2000s pp. 724-740

Isil Erol

Dismantled Spatial Fixes in the Aftermath of Recession: Capital Switching and Labour Underutilization in the Greek Capital Metropolitan Region pp. 741-759

Konstantinos Gourzis and Stelios Gialis

Forefronts of the Sharing Economy: Uber in Cape Town pp. 760-775

Andrea Pollio

Why ‘Good Governance’ Fails: Lessons from Regional Economic Development in Colombia pp. 776-785

Tobias Franz

Beyond Circular Thinking: Geographies of Transit‐Oriented Development pp. 786-793

Mattias Qviström, Nik Luka and Greet De Block

Florida in the Global South: How Eurocentrism Obscures Global Urban Challenges—and What We Can Do about It pp. 794-805

Seth Schindler and Jonathan Silver

Barry D. Solomon and Kirby E. Calvert (eds.) 2017: Handbook on the Geographies of Energy. Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar pp. 806-807

Ludger Gailing

Anke Schwarz 2017: Demanding Water: A Sociospatial Approach to Domestic Water Use in Mexico City. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag pp. 807-809

Alejandro De Coss‐Corzo

Chiara Tornaghi and Chiara Certomà (eds.) 2019: Urban Gardening as Politics. Abingdon and New York: Routledge pp. 809-810

Lucilla Barchetta

Gordon C.C. Douglas 2018: The Help‐yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism. New York: Oxford University Press pp. 811-812

Margaret Dewar

Amanda Huron 2018: Carving out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, DC. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 812-814

Miguel A. Martínez

Volume 43, issue 3, 2019

State Theory from the Street Altar: The Muscles, the Saint and the Amparo pp. 405-422

Julie‐Anne Boudreau

‘The City of Our Dream’: Owambe Urbanism and Low‐income Women's Resistance in Ibadan, Nigeria pp. 423-441

Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin

Governmentality and Spatial Strategies: Towards Formalization of Street Vendors in Guangzhou, China pp. 442-459

Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue and Yang Wang

Uncertainty and the Governance of Street Vending: A Critical Comparison Across the North/South Divide pp. 460-475

Jennifer Lee Tucker and Ryan Thomas Devlin

Reconceptualizing Informal Work Practices: Some Observations from an Ethnic Minority Community in Urban UK pp. 476-496

Peter Rodgers, Muhammad Shehryar Shahid and Colin Williams

The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy pp. 497-516

Francesco Chiodelli

Displacing Informality: Rights and Legitimacy in Belo Horizonte, Brazil pp. 517-534

Mara Nogueira

Weird Exoskeletons: Propositional Politics and the Making of Home in Underground Bucharest pp. 535-550

Michele Lancione

Urban Informality and the State: Geographical Translations and Conceptual Alliances pp. 551-562

Christian G. Haid and Hanna Hilbrandt

The Myth of Formality in the Global North: Informality‐as‐Innovation in Dutch Governance pp. 563-568

Rivke Jaffe and Martijn Koster

Informality as Structure or Agency? Exploring Shed Housing in the UK as Informal Practice pp. 569-575

Melanie Lombard

Sovereignty Beyond the State: Exception and Informality in a Western European City pp. 576-581

Giovanni Picker

Juggling Legitimacies: Informal Places for Burials and Worship in Hong Kong pp. 582-588

Josefine Fokdal

Rule of Law and Rules‐Lawyering: Legal Corruption and ‘Reprivatization Business’ in Warsaw pp. 589-596

Joanna Kusiak

Informalization of the State: Reflections from an Urban World of Translations pp. 597-604

Julie‐Anne Boudreau

Richard Sennett 2018: Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City. London: Penguin Books pp. 605-606

Robert Beauregard

Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel (eds.) 2018: The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press pp. 606-608

Laura Kemmer

Erik Swyngedouw 2018: Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post‐Political Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 608-609

Jenny Mcarthur

Barbara Schönig and Sebastian Schipper (eds.) 2016: Urban Austerity: Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Cities in Europe. Berlin: Theater der Zeit pp. 610-611

Camerin Federico

Giovanni Picker 2017: Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe. Abingdon: Routledge—Advances in Sociology Series pp. 611-613

Ali Madanipour

Andrew J. Diamond 2017: Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press pp. 613-614

Larry Bennett

Tim Bunnell and Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.) 2018: Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present. Berlin: Jovis pp. 615-616

Monika Grubbauer

Volume 43, issue 2, 2019

Futures of Crisis, Futures of Urban Political Theory: Flooding in Asian Coastal Megacities pp. 207-226

Gavin Shatkin

Evicting Slums, ‘Building Back Better’: Resiliency Revanchism and Disaster Risk Management in Manila pp. 227-249

Maria Khristine Alvarez and Kenneth Cardenas

Urban Waterscapes: The Hydro‐Politics of Flooding in a Sinking City pp. 250-272

Kian Goh

Resilient Growth: Fantasy Plans and Unplanned Developments in India's Flood‐Prone Coastal Cities pp. 273-291

Liza Weinstein, Andrew Rumbach and Saumitra Sinha

When Diverse Norms Meet Weak Plans: The Organizational Dynamics of Urban Rubble Clearance in Post‐Earthquake Haiti pp. 292-312

Michael Hooper

Silence and Voice in Nigeria's Hybrid Urban Water Markets: Implications for Local Governance of Public Goods pp. 313-336

Charisma Shonté Acey

Irregular Connections: Everyday Energy Politics in Catalonia pp. 337-353

James Angel

Recovering Sociology from the Trash Heap: Of Waste Politics and the Spatialization of Local Representation in Lagos pp. 354-376

Côme Salvaire

Problematizing Urban Shit(ting): Representing Human Waste as a Problem pp. 377-392

Angela Oberg

Loretta Lees and Martin Phillips (eds.) 2018: Handbook of Gentrification Studies. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing pp. 393-394

Aysegul Can

Ugo Rossi 2017: Cities in Global Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 394-396

Alan Walks

Verónica Gago (ed.) 2017: Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press pp. 396-398

María Cervantes and Nick Middeldorp

Miguel A. Martinez Lopez (ed.) 2018: The Urban Politics of Squatters' Movements. New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 398-399

Basak Tanulku

Maria Jose Alvarez‐Rivadulla 2017: Squatters and the Politics of Marginality in Uruguay. New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 399-400

Robert Gay

Verónica Herrera 2017: Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press pp. 401-402

Felipe De Alba

Richard Webber and Roger Burrows 2018: The Predictive Postcode: The Geodemographic Classification of British Society. London: Sage Publications Ltd pp. 402-403

Benjamin N. Jacobsen

Volume 43, issue 1, 2019

Necrotecture: Lifeless Dwellings and London's Super‐Rich pp. 2-13

Rowland Atkinson

The Forever Frontier of Urbanism: Historicizing Persian Gulf Cities pp. 14-29

Alex Boodrookas and Arang Keshavarzian

Placing Property: Theorizing the Urban from Settler Colonial Cities pp. 30-45

Naama Blatman‐Thomas and Libby Porter

Constructing Cityscapes: Locality, Materiality and Territoriality on the Urban Construction Site in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Northwest China pp. 46-62

Madlen Kobi

Urban Political Ecology Beyond Methodological Cityism pp. 63-75

Creighton Connolly

Infrastructure's Expenditures: Changi Airport, Food Cargo and Capital's Technosphere pp. 76-93

Weiqiang Lin

Fungible Space: Competition and Volatility in the Global Logistics Network pp. 94-111

Martin Danyluk

Greening Displacements, Displacing Green: Environmental Subjectivity, Slum Clearance, and the Embodied Political Ecologies of Dispossession in Mumbai pp. 112-132

Sapana Doshi

Grabbed Urban Landscapes: Socio‐spatial Tensions in Green Infrastructure Planning in Medellín pp. 133-156

Isabelle Anguelovski, Clara Irazábal‐Zurita and James J.T. Connolly

Cooperative Islands in Capitalist Waters: Limited‐equity Housing Cooperatives, Urban Renewal and Gentrification pp. 157-178

Lorenzo Vidal

Contested Development: Homeless Property, Police Reform, and Resistance in Skid Row, LA pp. 179-194

Deshonay Dozier

Phil Hubbard 2017: The Battle for the High Street: Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust. London: Palgrave MacmillanSara González (ed.) 2018: Contested Markets, Contested Cities: Gentrification and Urban Justice in Retail Spaces. Abingdon: Routledge pp. 195-197

Anthony Miro Born

Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis (eds.) 2017: The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age. Ithaca, NY: Cornwell University Press pp. 197-198

Catharina Thörn

AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse 2017: New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times. Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 199-200

Michele Lancione

Winifred Curran 2018: Gender and Gentrification. New York: Routledge pp. 200-202

Rachel Weber

Melody L. Hoffmann 2016: Bike Lanes are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press pp. 202-203

Alan Latham

Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet and Yasmine Siblot 2016: The France of the Little‐middles. A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris. New York and Oxford: Berghahn pp. 204-205

Max Rousseau

Jaime A. Alves 2018: The Anti‐black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 205-206

Graham Denyer Willis