International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 42, issue 6, 2018

From Camp Town to International City: Us Military Base Expansion and Local Development in Pyeongtaek, South Korea pp. 967-985

Bridget Martin

Asĺ No (Not Like This): Resisting Postpolitics on Mexico City's Avenida Chapultepec pp. 986-1007

Ben A. Gerlofs

The Spatial‐Political Outcome of Urban Development Conflicts: Emancipatory Dynamics of Protests against Gentrification in Peñalolén, Santiago de Chile pp. 1008-1029

Corinna Hölzl

‘Problem Spaces’ and Struggles Over the Right to the City: Challenges of Living Differentially in a Gentrifying Istanbul Neighborhood pp. 1030-1047

Özlem Öz and Mine Eder

Hopeful City: Meritocracy and Affect in Global Cairo pp. 1048-1063

Harry Pettit

Village Redevelopment and Desegregation as a Strategy for Metropolitan Development: Some Lessons from Guangzhou City pp. 1064-1079

Siu Wai Wong, Bo‐Sin Tang and Jinlong Liu

The Quest for Water, Rights and Freedoms: Informal Urban Settlements in India pp. 1080-1095

Francesco M. Gimelli, Briony C. Rogers and Joannette J. Bos

The Jewel in the Crown: Co‐optive Capacity and Participation During Austerity in Cardiff and San Sebastián‐Donostia pp. 1096-1113

Valeria Guarneros‐Meza, Imanol Tellería, Asier Blas and Madeleine Pill

Beyond the Enclave of Urban Theory pp. 1114-1126

Austin Zeiderman

Knowledge of Metropolitan Governance in the South pp. 1127-1139

Richard Tomlinson and Philip Harrison

Three Metals and the ‘Post‐Socialist City’: Reclaiming the Peripheries of Urban Knowledge pp. 1140-1151

Michael Gentile

Derek Hyra 2017: Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 1152-1153

Loretta Lees

Stavros Stavrides 2016: Common Space: The City as Commons. London: Zed Books pp. 1153-1155

Francesco Zuddas

John J. Betancur and Janet L. Smith 2016: Claiming Neighborhood: New Ways of Understanding Urban Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press pp. 1155-1156

Sebastian Juhnke

Justin B. Hollander 2018: A Research Agenda for Shrinking Cities. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing pp. 1156-1158

Daniel Florentin

Alan Mayne 2017: Slums: The History of a Global Injustice. London: Reaktion Books Ltd pp. 1158-1159

Eugénie L. Birch

Gavin Shatkin 2017: Cities for Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia's Urban Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press pp. 1159-1160

Michael R. Glass

Luna Khirfan (ed.) 2017: Order and Disorder: Urban Governance and the Making of Middle Eastern Cities. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press pp. 1160-1162

Rayya El Zein

Scott McQuire 2017: Geomedia: Networked Cities and the Future of Public Space. Cambridge: Polity pp. 1162-1164

Claudio Coletta

Volume 42, issue 5, 2018

San Francisco Through Bogotá’s Eyes: Leveraging Urban Policy Change through the Circulation of Media Objects pp. 751-768

Sergio Montero

Machinic Assemblages of Publicness pp. 769-784

Michael Buser

Assemblages of Urban Leisure Culture in Inner‐City Bucharest pp. 786-806

Hans‐Joachim Bürkner and Silviu G. Totelecan

Weeds, Pheasants and Wild Dogs: Resituating the Ecological Paradigm in Postindustrial Detroit pp. 807-827

Paul Draus and Juliette Roddy

Producing Localized Commodity Frontiers at the End of Cheap Nature: An Analysis of Eco‐scalar Carbon Fixes and their Consequences pp. 828-844

Seth Schindler and J. Miguel Kanai

Low‐Carbon Gentrification: When Climate Change Encounters Residential Displacement pp. 845-863

Stefan Bouzarovski, Jan Frankowski and Sergio Tirado Herrero

Linear Parks and the Political Ecologies of Permeability: Environmental displacement in São Paulo, Brazil pp. 864-881

Nate Millington

Coastal Urban Planning in The ‘Green Republic’: Tourism Development and the Nature–Infrastructure Paradox in Costa Rica pp. 882-913

Clara Irazábal

Governing ‘Sustainable Urban Development’ Through Self‐Build Groups and Co‐Housing: The Cases of Hamburg and Gothenburg pp. 914-933

David Scheller and Håkan Thörn

Metropolitan Strategies and Climate Governance: Towards New Evaluative Approaches pp. 934-951

Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen, Kathryn Davidson and Brendan Gleeson

Robert A. Beauregard 2018: Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 952-953

Enora Robin

Willem Salet 2018: Public Norms and Aspirations: The Turn to Institutions in Action. New York and London: Routledge–RTPI Library Series pp. 953-955

Laura Lieto

Andrea Fischer‐Tahir and Sophie Wagenhofer (eds.) 2017: Disciplinary Spaces: Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century. Bielefeld: Transcript pp. 955-956

Benjamin Zachariah

Leslie Sklair 2017: The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities and Capitalist Globalization. New York: Oxford University Press pp. 956-958

Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría

Marc Pares, Sonia M. Ospina and Joan Subirats 2017: Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership: Communities and Social Change from Below. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar pp. 958-960

Marisol Garcia

Dallas Rogers 2017: The Geopolitics of Real Estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital and Rights. London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield pp. 960-962

Gabriel Fauveaud

Jesse Goldstein 2018: Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press pp. 962-963

Dustin Gray, Grace Newton and Sherry Yang

Richard Walkers 2018: Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area. Oakland, CA: PM Press pp. 963-965

Erin McElroy

Volume 42, issue 4, 2018

Re‐Thinking Territorial Cohesion in the European Planning Context pp. 547-572

Teresa Sá Marques, Miguel Saraiva, Gonçalo Santinha and Paula Guerra

Engineering the Financialization of Urban Entrepreneurialism: The JESSICA Urban Development Initiative in the European Union pp. 573-593

Dimitar Anguelov, Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard

State‐Led Financial Regulation and Representations of Spatial Fixity: The Example of the Spanish Real Estate Sector pp. 594-611

Ismael Yrigoy

Demolishing the Present to Sell off the Future? The Emergence of ‘Financialized Municipal Entrepreneurialism’ in London pp. 612-632

Joe Beswick and Joe Penny

The Neoliberalization of Municipal Land Policy in Sweden pp. 633-650

Lina Olsson

Old Wine in Private Equity Bottles? The Resurgence of Contract‐for‐Deed Home Sales in US Urban Neighborhoods pp. 651-665

Dan Immergluck

Urban Redevelopment Policies on the Move: Rethinking the Geographies of Comparison, Exchange and Learning pp. 666-683

Kevin Ward

A Small Entrepreneurial City in Action: Policy Mobility, Urban Entrepreneurialism, and Politics of Scale in Jiyuan, China pp. 684-702

Shenjing He, Lingyue Li, Yong Zhang and Jun Wang

Public–Private Partnerships and the Design Process: Consequences for Architects and City Building pp. 704-722

Martijn van den Hurk and Matti Siemiatycki

China's Urban Speed Machine: The Politics of Speed and Time in a Period of Rapid Urban Growth pp. 723-737

Shiuh‐shen Chien and Max D. Woodworth

Talja Blokland 2017: Community as Urban Practice. Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 738-739

Garry Robson

Roger Keil 2018: Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In. Cambridge and Medford, MA: Polity Press pp. 739-741

Diego García Mejuto

Els de Graauw 2016: Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press pp. 741-742

Thomas Swerts

Dimitris Dalakoglou 2017: The Road: An Ethnography of (Im)Mobility, Space, and Cross‐border Infrastructures in the Balkans. Manchester: Manchester University Press pp. 742-744

Nataša Gregorič Bon

Lucy Earle 2017: Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice: The Right to the City in São Paulo. London: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 744-745

Michael Cohen

Hans‐Liudger Dienel, M. Reza Shirazi, Sabine Schröder and Jenny Schmithals (eds.) 2017: Citizens’ Participation in Urban Planning and Development in Iran. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group pp. 746-747

Kian Tajbakhsh

Serhat Unaldi 2016: Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press pp. 747-749

Keng‐Khoon Ng

Volume 42, issue 3, 2018

Sex Work, Sensory Urbanism and Visual Criminology: Exploring the Role of the Senses in Shaping Residential Perceptions of Brothels in Blackpool pp. 373-389

Emily Cooper, Ian R. Cook and Charlotte Bilby

Urban Politics as the Unfolding of Social Relations in Place: The Case of Sexually Transmitted Disease Investigation in Mid†Twentieth†Century Gay Seattle pp. 390-407

Larry Knopp, Michael Brown and Will Mckeithen

Urban Vigilantism: A Study of Anti†Terror Law, Politics and Policing in Istanbul pp. 408-422

Deniz Yonucu

The Power of Group Stigmatization: Wealthy Roma, Urban Space and Strategies of Defence in Post†socialist Romania pp. 423-441

Remus Creţan and Ryan Powell

How Interspersion Affects Class Relations pp. 442-460

Marco Garrido

Seeing Like a City†State: Behavioural Planning and Governance in Egypt's First Affordable Gated Community pp. 461-482

Nicholas Simcik Arese

Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible: Redevelopment†induced Displacement of Migrants in Shenzhen, China pp. 483-499

Ying Liu, Stan Geertman, Frank Oort and Yanliu Lin

Territorial Stigmatization and Territorial Destigmatization: A Cultural Sociology of Symbolic Strategy in the Gentrification of Parkdale (Toronto) pp. 500-516

Mervyn Horgan

Global Best Practice or Regulating Fiction? Street Vending, Zero Tolerance and Conflicts Over Public Space in New York, 1980–2000 pp. 517-532

Ryan Thomas Devlin

Tim Bunnell 2016: From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool through Malay Lives. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell pp. 533-534

Ola Söderström

Goran Therborn 2017: Cities of Power: The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global. London and New York: Verso Books pp. 534-536

Pelin Asci

David Madden and Peter Marcuse 2016: In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis. London and New York: Verso Books pp. 536-537

Havva Ezgi Dogru

Kevin R. Cox 2016: The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception. New York: Syracuse University Press pp. 537-539

Stijn Oosterlynck

Fulong Wu 2015: Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China. New York: Routledge pp. 539-541

Max D. Woodworth

Llerena G. Searle 2016: Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press pp. 541-542

Hanna Hilbrandt

Theresa Enright 2016: The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty†first Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 542-544

Antoine Guironnet

Justin B. Hollander, Erin Graves, Henry Renski, Cara Foster†Karim, Andrew Wiley and Dibyendu Das 2016: Urban Social Listening: Potential and Pitfalls for Using Microblogging Data in Studying Cities. London: Palgrave Pivot pp. 544-545

Alyson Lloyd

Volume 42, issue 2, 2018

Transport Infrastructure and Logistics in the Making of Dubai Inc pp. 182-197

Rafeef Ziadah

Global Urban Policymaking in Africa: A View from Angola Through the Redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda pp. 198-209

Sylvia Croese

Resisting the 'Long†Arm' of the State? Spheres of Capture and Opportunities for Autonomy in Community Governance pp. 210-225

Paul O’Hare

Recasting Urban Governance through Leeds City Lab: Developing Alternatives to Neoliberal Urban Austerity in Co†production Laboratories pp. 226-243

Paul Chatterton, Alice Owen, Jo Cutter, Gary Dymski and Rachael Unsworth

Engineering Cities: Mediating Materialities, Infrastructural Imaginaries and Shifting Regimes of Urban Expertise pp. 244-262

Lisa Björkman and Andrew Harris

Urban Infrastructure, Imagination and Politics: from the Networked Metropolis to the Smart City pp. 263-275

Antoine Picon

The Engineer and The Plumber: Mediating Mumbai's Conflicting Infrastructural Imaginaries pp. 276-294

Lisa Björkman

Engineering Formality: Flyover and Skywalk Construction in Mumbai pp. 295-314

Andrew Harris

Conduct of Conduits: Engineering, Desire and Government through the Enclosure and Exposure of Urban Water pp. 315-333

Mark Usher

Politics of The Ring: Limits to Public Participation in Engineering Practice pp. 334-356

Joseph Hillier

Julie†Anne Boudreau 2017: Global Urban Politics. Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 358-359

Melora Koepke

Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift 2017: Seeing Like a City. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press pp. 359-361

Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri

Alistair Cole and Renaud Payre (eds.) 2016: Cities as Political Objects: Historical Evolution, Analytical Categorisations and Institutional Challenges of Metropolitanisation. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar pp. 361-363

Mark Davidson

Christopher Mele 2017: Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City. New York: New York University Press pp. 363-365

Corey Dolgon

James DeFilippis (ed.) 2016: Urban Policy in the Time of Obama. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press pp. 365-367

Kenneth M. Reardon

John Mollenkopf and Manuel Pastor (eds.) 2016: Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press pp. 367-368

Thomas J. Vicino

John Krinsky and Maud Simonet 2017: Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press pp. 369-370

Oliver Cooke

Susan Owens 2015: Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise: The UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 1970–2011. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 370-372

Anne Vogelpohl

Volume 42, issue 1, 2018

Beyond Space: Spatial (Re)Production and Middle†Class Remaking Driven by Jiaoyufication in Nanjing City, China pp. 1-19

Qiyan Wu, Tim Edensor and Jianquan Cheng

Being Good Parents or Being Good Citizens: Dilemmas and Contradictions of Urban Families in Middle†Class Enclaves and Mixed Neighbourhoods in Germany pp. 20-35

Susanne Frank and Sabine Weck

Planning Gentrification and the ‘Absent’ State in Athens pp. 36-50

Georgia Alexandri

Race and the Production of Extreme Land Abandonment in the American Rust Belt pp. 51-73

Jason Hackworth

‘If I was King of India I would Get All the Horns Out of Cars’: A Qualitative Study of Sound in Delhi pp. 74-89

Maria Patsarika, Tatjana Schneider and Michael Edwards

Bourdieu Comes to Town: Pertinence, Principles, Applications pp. 90-105

Loïc Wacquant

Social Space and the Genesis of Appropriated Physical Space pp. 106-114

Pierre Bourdieu

Social Power and Power Over Space: How the Bourgeoisie Reproduces itself in the City pp. 115-125

Monique Pinçon†Charlot and Michel Pinçon

Urban Distinctions: Class, Culture and Sociability in the City of Porto pp. 126-137

Virgílio Borges Pereira

Emerging Cultural Capital in the City: Profiling London and Brussels pp. 138-149

Mike Savage, Laurie Hanquinet, Niall Cunningham and Johs Hjellbrekke

Categorizing Neighborhoods: The Invention of ‘Sensitive Areas’ in France and ‘Historic Districts’ in the United States pp. 150-158

Sylvie Tissot

Heavy is the House: Rent Burden among the American Urban Poor pp. 160-170

Matthew Desmond

Davide Ponzini and Michele Nastasi 2016: Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors, and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities (Second edition). New York: The Monacelli Press pp. 172-173

Sabrina Puddu

Wayne K.D. Davies (ed.) 2015: Theme Cities: Solutions for Urban Problems. London: Springer (GeoJournal Library No. 112) pp. 174-175

Dieter Rink and Annegret Haase

Robert Biel 2016: Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City. London: UCL Press pp. 175-176

Beatrice Walthall

Donna Hornby, Rosalie Kingwill, Lauren Royston and Ben Cousins (eds.) 2017: Untitled: Securing Land Tenure in Urban and Rural South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu†Natal Press pp. 176-178

Colin Marx

Stefan Gärtner and Franz Flögel 2017: Raum und Banken: Zur Funktionsweise regionaler Banken [Space and Banks: Regarding the Functioning of Regional Banks]. Baden†Baden: Nomos pp. 178-179

Walter Bartl

Doreen Lee 2016: Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press pp. 179-181

Rachel Rinaldo