International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 40, issue 6, 2016

The Eurozone Crisis and Emerging-Market Expansion: Capital Switching and the Uneven Geographies of Spanish Urbanization pp. 1075-1093

William Kutz

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis pp. 1094-1111

Christopher Niedt and Brett Christophers

Financing China's Suburbanization: Capital Accumulation through Suburban Land Development in Hangzhou pp. 1112-1133

Yong Liu, Wenze Yue, Peilei Fan, Yi Peng and Zhengtao Zhang

China's Emergent City-Region Governance: A New Form of State Spatial Selectivity through State-orchestrated Rescaling pp. 1134-1151

Fulong Wu

Self-Organization and Urban Development: Disaggregating the City-Region, Deconstructing Urbanity in Amsterdam pp. 1152-1169

Federico Savini

Beyond a Liberal Critique of ‘Trickle Down': Urban Planning in the City of Malmö pp. 1170-1185

Ståle Holgersen and Guy Baeten

The Situations of Urban Inquiry: Thinking Problematically about the City pp. 1186-1204

Clive Barnett and Gary Bridge

Justice As Subject and Object of Planning pp. 1205-1220

Robert W. Lake

Accessing the Urban Commons Through the Mediation of Information: The Eliana Silva Occupation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil pp. 1221-1235

Denise Morado Nascimento

Shane Ewen 2016: What is Urban History? Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press pp. 1236-1237

Andrew Lees

Rowland Atkinson and Keith Jacobs 2016: House, Home and Society. London: Palgrave pp. 1237-1239

Christine Barwick

Carlo Fanelli 2016: Megacity Malaise: Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing pp. 1239-1240

Paul Bocking

Dan Immergluck 2015: Preventing the Next Mortgage Crisis: The Meltdown, the Federal Response, and the Future of Housing in America. New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield pp. 1240-1242

Kevin Fox Gotham

Michael Peter Smith and L. Owen Kirkpatrick (eds.) 2015: Reinventing Detroit: The Politics of Possibility. Comparative Urban and Community Research Series, Volume 11. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers pp. 1242-1244

David Bieri

Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas 2015: Reforming New Orleans: The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press pp. 1244-1245

Megan French-Marcelin

Christoph Haferburg and Marie Huchzermeyer (eds.) 2015: Urban Governance in Post-apartheid Cities: Modes of Engagement in South Africa's Metropoles. UKZN Press, Pietermaritzburg (first published in German by Gebr. Borntrager Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 2014) pp. 1246-1247

Laurence Piper

Graham Denyer-Willis 2015: The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press pp. 1247-1250

Jaime Amparo Alves

Volume 40, issue 5, 2016

Technologies of Translocality: Vegetables, Meat and Dresses in Arab Muslim Detroit pp. 899-917

Kimberley Kinder

Organizing The Ordinary City: How Labor Reform Strategies Travel to the US Heartland pp. 918-935

Marc Doussard

‘No Condition IS Permanent': Informal Transport Workers and Labour Precarity in Africa's Largest City pp. 936-957

Daniel E. Agbiboa

Rethinking Urban Epidemiology: Natures, Networks and Materialities pp. 958-982

Meike Wolf

Controlling Mobility and Regulation in Urban Space: Muslim Pilgrims to Mecca in Colonial Bombay, 1880–1914 pp. 983-999

Nick Lombardo

A Transposition of Territory: Decolonized Perspectives in Current Urban Research pp. 1000-1016

Anke Schwarz and Monika Streule

Urban Political Ecologies and Children's Geographies: Queering Urban Ecologies of Childhood pp. 1017-1035

Laura J. Shillington and Ann Marie F. Murnaghan

‘Tuning Out' or ‘Tuning in'? Mobile Music Listening and Intensified Encounters with the City pp. 1036-1043

Allan Watson and Dominiqua Drakeford-Allen

Urban Sensing by Crowdsourcing: Analysing Urban Trip behaviour in Zurich pp. 1044-1060

Dongyoun Shin

Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane (eds.) 2015: Territories of Poverty. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press pp. 1061-1062

Aysegul Can

Andrew R. Highsmith 2015: Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan and the Fate of the American Metropolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 1062-1064

Joshua Akers

Kimberley Kinder 2016: DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 1064-1066

Samuel Walker

Rachel Weber 2015: From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 1066-1067

Brett Christophers

Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Makarem and Taner Osman 2015: The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Stanford: Stanford University Press pp. 1067-1069

Jürgen Essletzbichler

Clarence N. Stone and Robert P. Stoker (eds.) in collaboration with John Betancur, Susan E. Clarke, Marilyn Dantico, Martin Horak, Karen Mossberger, Juliet Musso, Jefferey M. Sellers, Ellen Shiau, Harold Wolman and Donn Worgs 2015: Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 1069-1071

Sébastien Lambelet

Lars Maier (ed.) 2015: Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities, Inequalities. New York and London: Routledge pp. 1071-1072

Ana Aceska

Margarethe Kusenbach and Krista E. Paulsen (eds.) 2013: Home: International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang pp. 1073-1074

Peer Smets

Volume 40, issue 4, 2016

Urbanization and the City Image in Lowry at Tate Britain: Towards a Critique of Cultural Cityism pp. 717-735

Gareth Millington

Avoiding the ‘SoHo Effect’ in Baltimore: Neighborhood Revitalization and Arts and Entertainment Districts pp. 736-756

Meghan Ashlin Rich and William Tsitsos

The Limits to Artist-Led Regeneration: Creative Brownfields in the Cities of High Culture pp. 757-775

Lauren Andres and Oleg Golubchikov

Reappearance of the Public: Placemaking, Minoritization and Resistance in Detroit pp. 776-799

Alesia Montgomery

Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London pp. 800-816

Melissa Butcher and Luke Dickens

The Ecology Of Neighborhood Participation and The Reproduction Of Political Conflict pp. 817-832

Andrew Deener

From Occupation to Recuperation: Property, Politics and Provincialization in Contemporary Madrid pp. 833-848

Sophie Gonick

Residential Enclosure, Power and Relationality: Rethinking Sociopolitical Relations in Southeast Asian Cities pp. 849-865

Gabriel Fauveaud

Durable Domestic Dreams: Exploring Homes in Estonian Socialist-era Summerhouse Settlements pp. 866-883

Mari Nuga, Kadri Leetmaa and Tiit Tammaru

AbdouMaliq Simone 2014: Jakarta: Drawing the City Near. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 884-886

Helga Leitner

Javier Auyero and María Fernanda Berti 2015: In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence. Princeton: Princeton University Press pp. 886-887

Christopher Bauer

Paul Watt and Peer Smets (eds.) 2014: Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 887-888

Jan Willem Duyvendak

Michael A. Pagano (ed.) 2015: Return of the Neighborhood as an Urban Strategy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press pp. 889-890

Richard Harris

Craig Willse 2015: The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 890-892

Eric Goldfischer

Thilo Lang, Sebastian Henn, Wladimir Sgibnev and Kornelia Ehrlich (eds.) (2015): Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization. Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 892-893

Manfred Kühn

Barrie Needham 2014: Dutch Land-use Planning: The Principles and the Practice. Farnham: Ashgate pp. 893-895

Fred Hobma

Pedro Fiori Arantes: 2012: Arquitetura na Era Digital-financeira: Desenho, Canteiro e Renda da Forma. São Paulo: Editora 34 pp. 895-897

Daniela Sandler

Volume 40, issue 3, 2016

Entrepreneurial Religion in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism pp. 487-506

Stephan Lanz and Martijn Oosterbaan

Building, Marketing and Living in an Islamic Gated Community: Novel Configurations of Class and Religion in Istanbul pp. 507-523

Ayşe Çavdar

Building God's City: The Political Economy of Prayer Camps in Nigeria pp. 524-540

Asonzeh Ukah

The Born-Again Favela: The Urban Informality of Pentecostalism in Rio de Janeiro pp. 541-558

Stephan Lanz

Trump in Scotland: A Study of Power-Topologies and Golf Topographies pp. 559-577

Erik Jönsson

Modernist Ideas and Local Reception: The company towns of Piazzola sul Brenta and Borgonyà, 1895–1930 pp. 578-600

Francesco Visentin

Unseeing Chinatown: Universal Zoning, Planning Abstraction and Space of Difference pp. 601-620

Napong Tao Rugkhapan

‘Post-Third-World City' or Neoliberal ‘City of Exception'? Rio de Janeiro in the Olympic Era pp. 621-639

Matthew Aaron Richmond and Jeff Garmany

Planning in Turbulent Times: Exploring Planners' Agency in Jerusalem pp. 640-657

Jonathan Rokem and Marco Allegra

Recentralization as an Alternative to Urban Dispersion: Transformative Planning in a Neoliberal Societal Context pp. 658-678

Pierre Filion, Anna Kramer and Gary Sands

Beyond the Urban–Suburban Divide: Urbanization and the Production of the Urban in Zurich North pp. 679-701

Rahel Nüssli and Christian Schmid

Luna Khirfan 2014: World Heritage, Urban Design and Tourism: Three Cities in the Middle East. Burlington: Ashgate pp. 702-704

Erica Avrami

Ola Söderström 2014: Cities in Relations: Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou. Chichester: Studies in Urban and Social Change, Wiley Blackwell pp. 704-706

Mélissa Côté-Douyon

Roger Keil and Pierre Hamel (eds.) 2015: Suburban Governance: A Global View. Toronto: Toronto University Press pp. 706-707

Stijn Oosterlynck and Federico Savini

Romain Pasquier 2015: Regional Governance and Power in France: The Dynamics of Political Space. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 707-709

Deborah Galimberti

James M. Lindgren 2014: Preserving South Street Seaport: The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District. New York: New York University Press pp. 709-711

Robert Beauregard

Edward Chell 2013: Soft Estate. Liverpool: The Bluecoat pp. 711-712

Matthew Gandy

Jürgen Von Mahs 2013: Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin. The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People. Philadelphia: Temple University Press pp. 712-713

Katharina Schmidt

Christine Hentschel 2015: Security in the Bubble: Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 714-716

Laura Nkula-Wenz

Volume 40, issue 2, 2016

The Structural Origins of Territorial Stigma: Water and Racial Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1950s–2010s pp. 263-283

Dana Kornberg

Solidarity in Climate/Immigrant Justice Direct Action: Lessons from Movements in the US South pp. 284-298

Sara Thomas Black, Richard Anthony Milligan and Nik Heynen

Politicizing Undocumented Immigrants One Corner at a Time: How Day Laborers Became a Politically Contentious Group pp. 299-320

Walter Nicholls

Institutionalization and Depoliticization of the Right to the City: Changing Scenarios for Radical Social Movements pp. 321-339

Sergio Belda-Miquel, Jordi Peris Blanes and Alexandre Frediani

Acts of Solidarity: Crossing and Reiterating Israeli–Palestinian Frontiers pp. 340-356

Alexander Koensler

Why Local Social Forums Emerge Where They do: Beyond Diffusion, Geographical Appropriation pp. 357-377

Pascale Dufour

Reasons of Power: Explaining Non-cooptation in Participatory Budgeting pp. 378-394

Markus Holdo

Ponds, Power and Institutions: The Everyday Governance of Accessing Urban Water Bodies in a Small Bengali City pp. 395-409

Natasha Cornea, Anna Zimmer and René Véron

Practicing Openness: Investigating the Role of Everyday Decision Making in the Production of Squatted Space pp. 410-424

Joost de Moor

Formalization by the State, Re-Informalization by the People: A Gecekondu Transformation Housing Estate as Site of Multiple Discrepancies pp. 425-440

Tahire Erman

The Limits of Shrinkage: Conceptual Pitfalls and Alternatives in the Discussion of Urban Population Loss pp. 441-450

Matthias Bernt

Why do Graffiti Writers Write on Murals? The Birth, Life, and Slow Death of Freeway Murals in Los Angeles pp. 451-471

Stefano Bloch

Kuniko Fujita (ed.) 2013: Cities and Crisis: New Critical Urban Theory. London: Sage Studies in International Sociology pp. 472-473

Marisol Garcia

Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Galès and Francisco J. Moreno-Fuentes 2015: Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper Middle Classes in Europe. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell pp. 474-475

Gary Bridge

Eitan Alimi, Charles Demetriou and Lorenzo Bosi 2015: The Dynamics of Radicalization: A Relational and Comparative Perspective. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press pp. 475-477

Frédérick Nadeau

Matthew D. Marr 2015: Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities. Ithaca: Cornell University Press pp. 477-479

Jurgen von Mahs

Richard Alba and Nancy Foner 2015: Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press pp. 479-480

Jared Keyel

Aaron Schutz and Mike Miller (eds.) 2015: People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press pp. 480-482

Marnie Brady

Edward Murphy 2015: For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960–2010. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press pp. 482-483

Ernesto López-Morales

Glen S. Coulthard 2014: Red Skins White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 483-485

Libby Porter

Volume 40, issue 1, 2016

Economic Rationality Meets Celebrity Urbanology: Exploring Edward Glaeser's City pp. 1-30

Jamie Peck

‘Asset Price Urbanism’ and Financialization after the Crisis: Ireland's National Asset Management Agency pp. 31-45

Michael Byrne

Financializing Desalination: Rethinking the Returns of Big Infrastructure pp. 46-61

Alex Loftus and Hug March

World Cities and the Uneven Geographies of Financialization: Unveiling Stratification and Hierarchy in the World City Archipelago pp. 62-81

Michiel Van Meeteren and David Bassens

Animating the Urban Vortex: New Sociological Urgencies pp. 82-95

Suzanne Hall and Mike Savage

Spaces of Extraction, Metropolitan Explosions: Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Boom in Latin America pp. 96-112

Martín Arboleda

Accounts from behind the Curtain: History and Geography in the Critical Analysis of Urban Theory pp. 113-131

Slavomíra Ferenčuhová

Strategies for Comparative Urbanism: Post-socialism as a De-territorialized Concept pp. 132-146

Tauri Tuvikene

Social Sciences and Urban Studies: Goodbye to Paradigms? pp. 147-156

Emilio Duhau

A Limitless Urban Theory? A Response to Scott and Storper's ‘The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory' pp. 157-163

Oli Mould

Why Cities? A Response pp. 164-180

Richard A. Walker

Debate on Global Urbanisms and the Nature of Urban Theory pp. 181-186

Jennifer Robinson and Ananya Roy

Comparative Urbanism: New Geographies and Cultures of Theorizing the Urban pp. 187-199

Jennifer Robinson

Who's Afraid of Postcolonial Theory? pp. 200-209

Ananya Roy

It's Just the City after All! pp. 210-218

Abdoumaliq Simone

The Twenty-First-Century Quest for Feminism and the Global Urban pp. 219-227

Linda Peake

Provincializing Critical Urban Theory: Extending the Ecosystem of Possibilities pp. 228-235

Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard

Translational Global Praxis: Rethinking Methods and Modes of African Urban Research pp. 236-246

Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse

Katherine Lebow 2013: Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press Kinga Pozniak 2014: Nowa Huta: Generations of Change in a Model Socialist Town. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press pp. 247-249

Elitza Stanoeva

Kiril Stanilov and Luděk Sýkora (eds.) 2014: Confronting Suburbanization: Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell pp. 249-251

Stefan Bouzarovski

Kenny Cupers 2014: The Social Project: Housing Postwar France. London and Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 251-252

Harald Engler

Carolyn T. Adams 2014: From the Outside in: Suburban Elites, Third-sector Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press pp. 252-254

Todd Swanstrom

Emily E. Straus 2014: Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton, California. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press pp. 254-256

Yohann Le Moigne

Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore 2015: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press pp. 256-258

Cristina Temenos

Andrew MacLaran and Sinead Kelly (eds.) 2014: Neoliberal Urban Policy and the Transformation of the City: Reshaping Dublin. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 258-260

Therese Kenna

Federico Caprotti 2015: Eco-cities and the Transition to Low Carbon Economies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 260-261

Rachel Huxley