International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 41, issue 6, 2017

Sunken Cities: Climate Change, Urban Futures and the Imagination of Submergence pp. 868-887

Paul Dobraszczyk

Worlding Water Supply: Thinking Beyond the Network in Jakarta pp. 888-903

Kathryn Furlong and Michelle Kooy

Urban Warfare Ecology: A Study of Water Supply in Basrah pp. 904-925

Mark Zeitoun, Heather Elaydi, Jean‐Philippe Dross, Michael Talhami, Evaristo de Pinho‐Oliveira and Javier Cordoba

Spatial Practices and the Institutionalization of Water Sanitation Services in Southern Metropolises: The case of Jakarta and its Kampung Kojan pp. 926-945

Prathiwi W. Putri and Frank Moulaert

Writing Across Contexts: Urban Informality and the State in Tallinn, Bafatá and Berlin pp. 946-961

Hanna Hilbrandt, Susana Neves Alves and Tauri Tuvikene

Spatial Spillovers Revisited: Innovation, Human Capital and Local Dynamics pp. 962-975

Tuzin Baycan, Peter Nijkamp and Roger Stough

Towards a New Conceptualization of Innovation in Space: Territorial Patterns of Innovation pp. 976-996

Roberta Capello

Creating an Environment for Economic Growth: Creativity, Entrepreneurship or Human Capital? pp. 997-1009

Alessandra Faggian, Mark Partridge and Edward J. Malecki

The Geography of Innovation in China and India pp. 1010-1027

Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose

Richard Florida 2017: The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class –– and What We Can Do About It. New York: Basic Books pp. 1028-1029

Robert Beauregard

Stephen Graham 2016: Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers. London: Verso pp. 1029-1030

Christopher Harker

Oliver Coutard and Jonathan Rutherford (eds.) 2016: Beyond the Networked City: Infrastructure Reconfigurations and Urban Change in the North and South. London: Routledge pp. 1031-1032

Eric Verdeil

Martina Löw 2016: The Sociology of Space: Materiality, Social Structures, and Action. New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 1032-1034

Margarethe Kusenbach

Antonio Loris 2015: Water, State and the City. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 1034-1035

José Esteban Castro

Rowland Atkinson and Sarah Blandy 2017: Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front. Manchester: Manchester University Press pp. 1035-1037

Don Mitchell

Françoise Montambeault 2016: The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Institutions, Actors, and Interactions. Stanford: Stanford University Press pp. 1037-1039

Wagner de Melo Romão

Robert Saliba (ed.) 2015: Urban Design in the Arab World: Re‐conceptualizing Boundaries. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate pp. 1039-1040

Yaser Abunnasr

Volume 41, issue 5, 2017

Spaces of the Expelled as Spaces of the Urban Commons? Analysing the Re-emergence of Squatting Initiatives in Rome pp. 708-725

Cesare Di Feliciantonio

Fragmentation in Urban Movements: The Role of Urban Planning Processes pp. 727-748

Esin Özdemir and Ayda Eraydin

From 'A Frontier Land' to 'A Piece of North Africa in Italy': The Changing Politics of 'Tunisianness' in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily pp. 749-766

Ilaria Giglioli

‘It is the People that Have Made Glen Innes’: State-led Gentrification and the Reconfiguration of Urban Life in Auckland pp. 767-785

Renee Gordon, Francis L. Collins and Robin Kearns

Urban Fortunes and Skeleton Cityscapes: Real Estate and Late Urbanization in Kigali and Addis Ababa pp. 786-803

Tom Goodfellow

‘Ruins of Modernity’: The Critical Implications of Unfinished Public Works in Italy pp. 804-820

Pablo Arboleda

Fast Parallels? Contesting Mobile Policy Technologies pp. 821-837

Sally Weller

Historicizing Urban Sustainability: The Shifting Ideals Behind Forus Industrial Park, Norway pp. 838-854

Håvard Haarstad and Stina Ellevseth Oseland

Margit Mayer, Catharina Thörn and Håkan Thörn (eds.) 2016: Urban Uprisings: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 855-856

Bettina Engels

Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark 2017: Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Right Activism in the United States, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015. Chichester, West Sussex: Studies in Social and Urban Change series, Wiley-Blackwell pp. 856-858

Catharina Thörn

Amy Starecheski 2016: Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 858-859

Amanda Huron

Costis Hadjimichalis 2014: Κρίση χρέους και εκποίηση γης [Debt Crisis and Land Dispossession]. Athens: ΚΨΜ Publications pp. 859-861

John Sayas

Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk (eds.) 2016: Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 862-863

Sven Daniel Wolfe

Nikhil Anand 2017: Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai. Durham, NC: Duke University Press pp. 863-866

Sneha Annavarapu

Volume 41, issue 4, 2017

The Variegated Financialization of Housing pp. 542-554

Manuel B. Aalbers

Privatization, Financialization and State Restructuring in Eastern Germany: The case of Am südpark pp. 555-571

Matthias Bernt, Laura Colini and Daniel Förste

The Financialization of A Social Housing Provider pp. 572-587

Manuel B. Aalbers, Jannes Van Loon and Rodrigo Fernandez

Unwilling Subjects of Financialization pp. 588-603

Desiree Fields

Financialization of Housing in Brazil: New Frontiers pp. 604-622

Alvaro Luis Dos Santos Pereira

The Financialization of Housing Production in Brussels pp. 623-641

Alice Romainville

Real Geographies, Real Economies and Soft Spatial Imaginaries: Creating a ‘More than Manchester’ Region pp. 642-657

Stephen Hincks, Iain Deas and Graham Haughton

Using the Past to Construct Territorial Identities in Regional Planning: The Case of Mälardalen, Sweden pp. 659-675

Luciane Aguiar Borges

Killing the Regional Leviathan? Deinstitutionalization and Stickiness of Regions pp. 676-693

Kaj Zimmerbauer, Sulevi Riukulehto and Timo Suutari

Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda and Caroline Skinner (eds.) 2015: Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa. Cape Town: Southern African Migration Programme, the African Center for Cities and the International Development Research Center Daniel Goldstein 2016: Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City. Durham, NC: Duke University Press pp. 694-698

Claire Benit-Gbaffou

Thomas J. Main 2016: Homelessness in New York City: Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio. New York: New York University Press pp. 698-699

Tom Baker

Tracy Neumann 2016: Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press pp. 699-701

L. Owen Kirkpatrick

Robert Argenbright 2016: Moscow under Construction. City Building, Place-Based Protest, and Civil Society. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books pp. 701-703

Oleg Golubchikov

Rosemary Wakeman 2016: Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 703-704

Allan Cochrane

Martin van der Velde and Ton van Naerssen (eds.) 2015: Mobility and Migration Choices: Thresholds to Crossing Borders. Aldershot: Ashgate pp. 704-706

Felicitas Hillmann

Volume 41, issue 3, 2017

Creating Space For Citizenship: The Liminal Politics of Undocumented Activism pp. 379-395

Thomas Swerts

A Socio-Technical Perspective To The Right To The City: Regularizing Electricity Access in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas pp. 396-413

Francesca Pilo'

Food Deserts and Real-Estate-Led Social Policy pp. 414-425

Laura Wolf-Powers

Is This What The Democratic City Looks Like? Local Democracy, Housing Rights and Homeownership in the Portuguese Context pp. 426-442

Ana Drago

When Social Infrastructure Deficits Create Displacement Pressures: Inner City Schools and the Suburbanization of Families in Melbourne pp. 443-463

Megan Nethercote

Preface to an Interventions Forum on Contextual Urban Theory and The ‘Appeal’ of Gentrification pp. 464-465

Carolyn Cartier

Contextual Urban Theory and the ‘Appeal’ of Gentrification: Lost in Transposition? pp. 466-477

Carolyn Cartier

Beneath the Appearance of Gentrification: Probing Local Complexities pp. 478-486

Tai-Lok Lui

Beyond Gentrification: Hegemonic Redevelopment in Hong Kong pp. 487-499

Wing-Shing Tang

Institutionalization of ‘The Property Mind’ pp. 500-507

Anne Haila

Gentrifying China's Urbanization? Why Culture and Capital Aren't Enough pp. 508-5517

Luigi Tomba

Ain't Talkin' ‘Bout Gentrification: The Erasure of Alternative Idioms of Displacement Resulting from Anglo-American Academic Hegemony pp. 518-525

Alan Smart and Josephine Smart

Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck 2013: Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics. New York: Oxford University Press Lisa Björkman 2015: Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press pp. 526-528

Ross Beveridge

Rivke Jaffe 2016: Concrete Jungles: Urban Pollution and the Politics of Difference in the Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press pp. 528-530

Colin Clarke

Chiara Tornaghi and Sabine Knierbein 2014: Public Space and Relational Perspectives: New Challenges for Architecture and Planning. London: Routledge pp. 530-531

Sophie Watson

Faranak Miraftab 2016: Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press pp. 532-533

Clara Irazábal

Brian J. McCabe 2016: No Place Like Home: Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership. New York: Oxford University Press pp. 533-535

Rowan Arundel

Eduardo Marques (ed.) 2016: São Paulo in the Twenty-First Century: Spaces, Heterogeneities, Inequalities. New York and London: Routledge pp. 535-537

Alvaro Luis dos Santos Pereira

Kristin V. Monroe 2016: The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press pp. 537-539

Mona Fawaz

Erik Harms 2016: Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon. Berkeley: University of California Press pp. 539-540

Jamie Gillen

Volume 41, issue 2, 2017

Family or Money? The False Dilemma in Property Dispossession in Shanghai pp. 194-212

Yunpeng Zhang

Idioms of Accumulation: Corporate Accumulation by Dispossession in Urban Zimbabwe pp. 213-234

Beacon Mbiba

Negotiating the Politics of Exclusion: Georges Candilis, Housing and the Kuwaiti Welfare State pp. 235-250

Asseel Al-Ragam

The Weakness Of Symbolic Boundaries: Handling Exclusion Among Montevideo's Squatters pp. 251-265

María José Álvarez-Rivadulla

Breaking With Neoliberalization by Restricting The Housing Market: Novel Urban Policies and the Case of Hamburg pp. 266-281

Anne Vogelpohl and Tino Buchholz

Informal Housing in the United States pp. 282-297

Noah J. Durst and Jake Wegmann

Governed Through Ghost Jurisdictions: Municipal Law, Inner Suburbs and Rooming Houses pp. 298-317

Lisa Freeman

‘Generation Rent’ and The Fallacy of Choice pp. 318-333

Kim Mckee, Tom Moore, Adriana Soaita and Joe Crawford

The High-Rise Home: Verticality as Practice in London pp. 334-352

Richard Baxter

Critically Interrogating Eco-Homes pp. 353-365

Jenny Pickerill

Carolyn Gallaher 2016: The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-buy in Washington, DC. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press pp. 366-367

Derek Hyra

Robert J. Chaskin and Mark L. Joseph 2015: Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-income Public Housing Transformation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 367-369

David Wilson

Peter Herrle, Astrid Ley and Josefine Fokdal (eds.) 2015: From Local Action to Global Networks: Housing the Urban Poor. Farnham: Ashgate pp. 369-370

Sonia Roitman

Michaël Tatham 2016: With, Without, or Against the State? How European Regions Play the Brussels Game. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 370-372

Nicole Bolleyer

Eugenie L. Birch, Shahana Chattaraj and Susan M. Wachter (eds.) 2016: Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press pp. 372-373

Richard Harris

Philip Harrison, Graeme Gotz, Alison Todes and Chris Wray (eds.) 2014: Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg after Apartheid. Johannesburg: Wits University Press pp. 374-375

Alexandra Parker

Filip de Boeck and Sammy Baloji 2016: Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds. London: Autograph ABP pp. 375-376

Kacper Pobłocki

Amale Andraos, Nora Akawi and Caitlin Blanchfield (eds.) 2016: The Arab City: Architecture and Representation. New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, Columbia University Press pp. 376-378

Aya Nassar

Volume 41, issue 1, 2017

Theorizing the Politicizing City pp. 1-18

Mustafa Dikeç and Erik Swyngedouw

The Work of a Few Trees: Gezi, Politics and Space pp. 19-36

Sinan Erensü and Ozan Karaman

From Occupying Plazas to Recuperating Housing: Insurgent Practices in Spain pp. 37-53

Melissa García-Lamarca

Staging Equality in Greek Squares: Hybrid Spaces of Political Subjectification pp. 54-69

Lazaros Karaliotas

The Tunisian Revolution: Neoliberalism, Urban Contentious Politics and the Right to the City pp. 70-83

Sami Zemni

Urban Operating Systems: Diagramming the City pp. 84-103

Simon Marvin and Andrés Luque-Ayala

Toward The Networked City? Translating Technological ideals and Planning Models in Water and Sanitation Systems in Dar es Salaam pp. 104-125

Jochen Monstadt and Sophie Schramm

Sisyphean Dilemmas of Development: Contrasting Urban Infrastructure and Fiscal Policy Trends in Maputo, Mozambique pp. 126-144

Gabriella Y. Carolini

How to Mend a Fragmented City: a Critique of ‘Infrastructural Solidarity' pp. 145-161

Laura Cesafsky

Experimental Infrastructure: Experiences in Bicycling in Quito, Ecuador pp. 162-180

Julie Gamble

Anne Haila 2016: Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a Property State. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell pp. 181-182

Callum Ward

Asher D. Ghertner 2015: Rule By Aesthetics: World-class City Making in Delhi. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 182-184

Austin Zeiderman

James Farrer and Andrew David Field 2015: Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press pp. 184-186

Laam Hae

Kate Maclean 2015: Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence: The Medellín Miracle. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 186-188

Catalina Ortiz

Talja Blokland, Carlotta Giustozzi, Daniela Krüger and Hannah Schilling (eds.) 2016: Creating the Unequal City: The Exclusionary Consequences of Everyday Routines in Berlin. Farnham: Ashgate pp. 188-189

Ares Kalandides

Nicholas Phelps 2016: Sequel to Suburbia: Glimpses of America's Post-suburban Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 189-191

Meg Holden