International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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Volume 39, issue 6, 2015

Urban Poverty, Segregation and Social Networks in São Paulo and Salvador, Brazil pp. 1067-1083

Eduardo Marques

Segregated Networks in the City pp. 1084-1102

Vinicius M. Netto, Maíra Soares Pinheiro and Roberto Paschoalino

Beyond Bureaucracy: How Prosecutors and Public Defenders Enforce Urban Planning Laws in São Paulo, Brazil pp. 1103-1119

Salo V. Coslovsky

Inclusionary Zoning and Exclusionary Development: The Politics of ‘Affordable Housing' in North Brooklyn pp. 1120-1136

Filip Stabrowski

Towards a ‘Post-Neoliberal’ Mode of Housing Regulation? The Israeli Social Protest of Summer 2011 pp. 1137-1154

Sebastian Schipper

Subterranean Commodification: Informal Housing and the Legalization of Basement Suites in Vancouver from 1928 to 2009 pp. 1155-1171

Pablo Mendez and Noah Quastel

Rental as A Taste of Freedom: The Decline of Home Ownership amongst Working-class Youth in Spain during Times of Crisis pp. 1172-1190

Mikel Aramburu

A Sense of Displacement: Long-time Residents' Feelings of Displacement in Gentrifying Bushwick, New York pp. 1191-1208

Chiara Valli

Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods pp. 1209-1230

Isabelle Anguelovski

Licensing, Popular Practices and Public Spaces: An Inquiry via the Geographies of Street Food Vending pp. 1231-1250

Regan Koch

Whose Responsibility? The Role of Bouncers in Policing the Public Spaces of Nightlife Districts pp. 1251-1262

Liempt Van and Aalst Van

Gentrification, Social Justice and Personal Ethics pp. 1263-1269

Peter Marcuse

Migrant Businesses And The Symbolic Transformation Of Urban Neighborhoods: Towards a Research Agenda pp. 1270-1278

Michael Parzer and Florian J. Huber

Tony R. Samara, Shenjing He and Guo Chen (eds.) 2013: Locating Right to the City in the Global South. Abingdon: Routledge Gülcin Erdi-Lelandais (ed.) 2014: Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing pp. 1279-1282

Hyun Bang Shin

Andy Merrifield 2014: The New Urban Question. London: Pluto Press pp. 1282-1284

Ståle Holgersen

Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales 2015: Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement. Bristol: Policy Press pp. 1284-1285

Matthias Bernt

Marie-Hélène Bacqué, Gary Bridge, Michaela Benson, Tim Butler, Eric Charmes, Yankel Fijalkow, Emma Jackson, Lydie Launay and Stéphanie Vermeersch 2015: The Middle Classes and the City: A Study of Paris and London. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 1286-1287

Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes

Susanne Wessendorf 2014: Commonplace Diversity: Social Relations in a Super-diverse Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 1287-1289

Maxime Felder

Anna Storm 2014: Post-industrial Landscape Scars. New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 1289-1290

Daryl Martin

Adriana Premat 2012: Sowing Change: The Making of Havana's Urban Agriculture. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press pp. 1290-1292

Jorge Peña Díaz and Susan Fitzgerald

Michael Dunford and Weidong Liu (eds.) 2015: The Geographical Transformation of China. London and New York: Routledge pp. 1292-1293

Clifton W. Pannell

Volume 39, issue 5, 2015

Fluid Spatial Imaginaries: Evolving Estuarial City-regional Spaces pp. 857-873

Graham Haughton and Philip Allmendinger

Evidence of Place: Becoming a Region in Rural Canada pp. 874-891

Sean Markey, Sarah-Patricia Breen, Kelly Vodden and Jen Daniels

‘It's Not Going to be Suburban, It's Going to be All Urban’: Assembling Post-suburbia in the Toronto and Chicago Regions pp. 892-911

Roger Keil and Jean-Paul D. Addie

Urbanization as A Process of State Building: Local Governance Reforms in China pp. 912-926

Siu Wai Wong

Placing the Urban Village: A Spatial Perspective on the Development Process of Urban Villages in Contemporary China pp. 927-947

Dror Kochan

The Slum Multiple: A Cyborg Micro-history of an Informal Settlement in Lisbon pp. 948-964

Eduardo Ascensão

Unsettling Neoliberal Rationalities: Engaged Ethnography and the Meanings of Responsibility in the Dominican Republic and Mexico pp. 965-983

Bj⊘rn Sletto and Anja Nygren

Disrupted Infrastructures: An Urban Political Ecology of Interrupted Electricity in Accra pp. 984-1003

Jonathan Silver

‘We Live on Estimates': Everyday Practices of Prepaid Electricity and the Urban Condition in Maputo, Mozambique pp. 1004-1019

Idalina Baptista

The Political Ecology of Virtual Water in Southern Spain pp. 1020-1036

Maria J. Beltrán and Esther Velázquez

Debate on Karen Bakker's Privatizing Water pp. 1037-1039

Bharat Punjabi

THE ETHICAL IMPERATIVE: A Commentary on Karen Bakker's Privatizing Water pp. 1040-1042

Vinay Gidwani

Bakker's Privatizing Water and the Place of China's Cities pp. 1043-1046

Alana Boland

Governance Failures in Neoliberal Times pp. 1047-1048

Farhana Sultana

Water, Water Everywhere! but What of the City? Still Incomplete and Uneven pp. 1049-1050

Roger Keil

Confessions of An Accidental Urbanist pp. 1051-1053

Karen Bakker

Lawrence J. Vale 2013: Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-cleared Communities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press Patrick Sharkey 2013: Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press Silvia Dominguez 2011: Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing and Immigrant Networks. New York: New York University Press pp. 1054-1056

Talja Blokland

Susan M. Wachter and Kimberly A. Zeuli (eds.) 2013: Revitalizing American Cities. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press pp. 1056-1058

James J.T. Connolly

Jennifer Hazen and Dennis Rodgers 2014: Global Gangs: Street Violence Across the World. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press pp. 1058-1059

David C. Brotherton

Cathy L. Schneider 2014: Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press pp. 1059-1061

Volker Eick

Ben Campkin 2013: Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture. London and New York: I.B. Tauris pp. 1061-1062

Paul Watt

Bradley L. Garrett 2013: Explore Everything: Place-hacking the City. London and New York: Verso pp. 1062-1063

Matthew Gandy

Squatting Europe Kollective with Claudio Cattaneo and Miguel A. Martínez (eds.) 2014: The Squatters' Movement in Europe: Commons and Autonomy as Alternatives to Capitalism. London: Pluto Press pp. 1063-1065

Amanda Huron

Liza Weinstein 2014: The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press pp. 1065-1066

Nausheen H. Anwar

Volume 39, issue 4, 2015

Urban Citizenship and Right to the City: The Fragmentation of Claims pp. 655-665

Talja Blokland, Christine Hentschel, Andrej Holm, Henrik Lebuhn and Talia Margalit

‘There are Really Two Cities Here’: Fragmented Urban Citizenship In Tel Aviv pp. 666-686

Nir Cohen and Talia Margalit

A Clash Of Subcultures? Questioning Queer–Muslim Antagonisms in the Neoliberal City pp. 687-703

Kira Kosnick

Between Neoliberal Governance and the Right to the City: Participatory politics in Berlin and Tel Aviv pp. 704-725

Adriana Kemp, Henrik Lebuhn and Galia Rattner

Epilogue—from ‘Gray Space' to Equal ‘Metrozenship'? Reflections On Urban Citizenship pp. 726-737

Oren Yiftachel

‘Social Mixing' or ‘Gentrification'? Contradictory Perspectives on Urban Change in the Berlin District of Neukölln pp. 738-755

Sandra Huning and Nina Schuster

‘Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being PassÉ': How Assimilation Affects the Spatial Expressions of Sexuality in the United States pp. 756-771

Amin Ghaziani

Anti-Communism, The Growth Machine and the Remaking of Cold-War-Era Pittsburgh pp. 772-787

Patrick S. Vitale

Planning as Dramaturgy: Agonistic Approaches to Spatial Enactment pp. 788-806

Päivi Rannila and Tikli Loivaranta

When Conflict Strikes: Contesting Neoliberal Urbanism outside Participatory Structures in Inner-city Dublin pp. 807-823

Katia Attuyer

Urban Policy Mobilities Research: Introduction to a Debate pp. 824-827

Tom Baker and Cristina Temenos

Thinking Through Dualisms in Urban Policy Mobilities pp. 828-830

Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward

‘Arriving At’ Urban Policies: The Topological Spaces of Urban Policy Mobility pp. 831-834

Jennifer Robinson

Policy Mobilities and Interdisciplinary Engagement pp. 835-837

Ian R. Cook

For Slow Research pp. 838-840

Merje Kuus

Enriching Urban Policy Mobilities Research pp. 841-843

Cristina Temenos and Tom Baker

Alan Harding and Talja Blokland 2014: Urban Theory: A Critical Introduction to Power, Cities and Urbanism in the 21st Century. London: Sage pp. 844-845

Tim Butler

Bernd Belina, Matthias Naumann and Anke Strüver (eds.) 2014: Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot pp. 845-847

Harald Bauder

Heywood T. Sanders 2014: Convention Center Follies: Politics, Power, and Public Investment in American Cities. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press pp. 847-849

Elizabeth Strom

Preston H. Smith II 2012: Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Post War Chicago. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 849-850

Bruce D. Haynes

Alice Goffman 2014: On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press pp. 850-852

Ulrike Bialas

Mario Reimer, Panagiotis Getimis and Hans Blotevogel (eds.) 2013: Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Changes. London: Routledge pp. 852-853

Nicholas Phelps

Annika M. Hinze 2013: Turkish Berlin. Integration Policy and Urban Space. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press pp. 853-855

Vojin Šerbedžija

Ato Quayson 2014: Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press pp. 855-856

James Christopher Mizes

Volume 39, issue 3, 2015

Toponymy as Commodity: Exploring the Economic Dimensions of Urban Place Names pp. 435-450

Duncan Light and Craig Young

Justifying Redevelopment ‘Failures' Within Urban ‘Success Stories': Dispute, Compromise, and a New Test of Urbanity pp. 451-470

Meg Holden, Andy Scerri and Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani

Building from Scratch: New Cities, Privatized Urbanism and the Spatial Restructuring of Johannesburg after Apartheid pp. 471-494

Claire W. Herbert and Martin J. Murray

‘Eco’ For Whom? Envisioning Eco-urbanism in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China pp. 495-517

Federico Caprotti, Cecilia Springer and Nichola Harmer

Entanglements of Periphery and Informality in Mexico City pp. 518-532

Liette Gilbert and Feike De Jong

We Blame the Building! The Architecture of Distributed Responsibility pp. 533-549

Robert Beauregard

Santiago Calatrava and the ‘Power of Faith’: Global Imaginaries in Valencia pp. 550-567

Amparo Tarazona Vento

Multiple Temporalities of Policy Circulation: Gradual, Repetitive and Delayed Processes of BRT Adoption in South African Cities pp. 568-580

Astrid Wood

The Politics of Post-Suburban Densification in Canada and France pp. 581-602

Eric Charmes and Roger Keil

Hard and Soft Densification Policies in the Paris City-Region pp. 603-612

Anastasia Touati-Morel

The Politics of Place: Place-making versus Densification in Toronto's Tower Neighbourhoods pp. 613-621

Will Poppe and Douglas Young

‘Many Rivers to Cross’: Suburban Densification and the Social Status Quo in Greater Lyon pp. 622-632

Max Rousseau

Suburban Inertia: The Entrenchment of Dispersed Suburbanism pp. 633-640

Pierre Filion

Danny Dorling 2014: All that is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster. London: Penguin Cathy Davis 2013: Finance for Housing: An Introduction. Bristol: Policy Press pp. 641-643

Stuart Hodkinson

Susan Parnell and Sophie Oldfield (eds.) 2014: The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South. New York: Routledge pp. 643-645

Eduardo Marques

Vinit Mukhija and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (eds.) 2014: The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press pp. 645-647

Nik Theodore

Robert J. Sampson 2012: Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. Chicago: Chicago University Press pp. 647-648

Talja Blokland

Geoff Harkness 2014: Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp. 648-650

Sterre Gilsing

Edward Relph ( 2014 ) Toronto: Transformations in a City and its Region. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press pp. 650-651

Douglas Young

Andrea Mubi Brighenti (ed.) 2013: Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between. Farnham: Ashgate pp. 651-653

Margarethe Kusenbach

Dexter Whitfield 2014: Unmasking Austerity: Opposition and Alternatives in Europe and North America. Nottingham: Spokesman Books pp. 653-654

Sebastian Schipper

Volume 39, issue 2, 2015

Composing Urban Orders from Rubbish Electronics: Cityness and the Site Multiple pp. 185-199

Josh Lepawsky, Grace Akese, Mostaem Billah, Creighton Conolly and Chris McNabb

Assembling and Spilling-Over: Towards an ‘Ethnography of Cement' in a Palestinian Refugee Camp pp. 200-217

Nasser Abourahme

Claiming Rights To Mobility Through The Right To Inhabitance: Discursive Articulations from Civic Actors in Montreal pp. 218-233

Sophie L. Van Neste and Gilles Sénécal

Absolute Traffic: Infrastructural Aptitude in Urban Indonesia pp. 234-250

Doreen Lee

The Trouble With Flag Wars: Rethinking Sexuality in Critical Urban Theory pp. 251-264

David K. Seitz

‘Wilding' in the West Village: Queer Space, Racism and Jane Jacobs Hagiography pp. 265-283

Johan Andersson

Neoliberalization of Istanbul's Nightlife: Beer or Champagne? pp. 284-304

Mine Eder and Özlem Öz

Vertical and Horizontal Segregation: Spatial Class Divisions in Oslo, 1970–2003 pp. 305-322

Jørn Ljunggren and Patrick Andersen

‘Gentrification Without Displacement' and the Consequent Loss of Place: The Effects of Class Transition on Low-income Residents of Secure Housing in Gentrifying Areas pp. 323-341

Kate S. Shaw and Iris W. Hagemans

Mutating Neoliberalism: The Promotion of Italian Investors in Slovakia before and after the Global Financial Crisis pp. 342-360

Christian Sellar and Rudolf Pástor

What Place For The Region? Reflections on the Regional Question and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research pp. 361-371

Simon Parker and Michael Harloe

Accentuate The Regional pp. 372-381

Edward Soja

If Urban Regions are the Answer, What is the Question? Thoughts on the European Experience pp. 382-389

Mariona Tomàs

Elite Compacts in Africa: The Role of Area-based Management in the New Governmentality of the Durban City-region pp. 390-406

Jo Beall, Susan Parnell and Chris Albertyn

Real Existing Regionalism: The Region between Talk, Territory and Technology pp. 407-417

Jean-Paul D. Addie and Roger Keil

Ahmad Kanna 2011: Dubai, the City as Corporation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Ashraf M. Salama and Florian Wiedmann 2013: Demystifying Doha: On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City. Farnham: Ashgate pp. 418-422

Mona Fawaz

Ilse Helbrecht and Peter Dirksmeier (eds.) 2012: New Urbanism: Life, Work and Space in the New Downtown. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing pp. 422-424

Tom Hutton

Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath and M. Vijayabaskar (eds.) 2013: Participolis –– Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India. New Delhi: Routledge pp. 424-426

Govind Gopakumar

Costanzo Ranci, Taco Brandsen and Stefania Sabatinelli 2014 (eds.): Social Vulnerability in European Cities: The Role of Local Welfare in Times of Crisis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 426-428

Eduardo Barberis

Ethan N. Elkind 2014: Railtown––The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press pp. 428-430

Deike Peters

Tone Huse 2014: Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City: On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put. Farnham: Ashgate pp. 430-431

Hamish Kallin

Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson 2013: Border as Method, or, The Multiplication of Labor. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press pp. 431-432

Henrik Lebuhn

Andy Merrifield 2013: The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press pp. 432-434

Kanishka Goonewardena

Volume 39, issue 1, 2015

IJURR Editorial pp. i-v

Julie-Anne Boudreau, Matthew Gandy and Maria Kaika

The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory pp. 1-15

Allen Scott and Michael Storper

Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism pp. 16-27

Hillary Angelo and David Wachsmuth

Reconstituting the Possible: Lefebvre, Utopia and the Urban Question pp. 28-45

David Pinder

How Globalization Really Happens: Remembering Activism in the Transformation of Istanbul pp. 46-61

Christopher Houston

Making ‘Global Sydney’: Spatial Imaginaries, Worlding and Strategic Plans pp. 62-78

Tom Baker and Kristian Ruming

Postcolonializing Berlin and The Fabrication of The Urban pp. 79-91

Christine Hentschel

The Enclave, The Citadel and the Ghetto: The Threefold Segregation of Upper-Class Muslims in India pp. 92-111

Juliette Galonnier

Governing Enclosure: The Role of Governance in Producing Gated Communities and Guarded Neighborhoods in Malaysia pp. 112-128

Peter Aning Tedong, Jill L. Grant and Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz

The ‘Black Metropolis' in the American Urban System of the Early Twentieth Century: Harlem, Bronzeville and Beyond pp. 129-144

Robert l. Boyd

Comparative Urbanism and the ‘Asian City': Implications for Research and Theory pp. 145-156

Julie Ren and Jason Luger

Resilience and Justice pp. 157-167

Susan Fainstein

Post-Childe, Post-Wirth: Response to Smith, Ur and Feinman pp. 168-171

Peter J. Taylor

Scott Larson 2013: Building like Moses with Jacobs in Mind: Contemporary Planning in New York City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press Sonia Hirt and Diane Zahm (eds.) 2012: The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs. New York: Routledge pp. 172-174

Brent D. Ryan

Michele Acuto and Wendy Steele (eds.) 2013: Global City Challenges: Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 175-176

Katherine Burnett

Jefferey M. Sellers, Daniel Kübler, Melanie Walter-Rogg and R. Alan Walks (eds.) 2013: The Political Ecology of the Metropolis: Metropolitan Sources of Electoral Behaviour in Eleven Countries. Colchester: ECPR Press pp. 176-178

Karsten Zimermann

Phil Cohen 2013: On the Wrong Side of the Track? East London and the Post Olympics. London: Lawrence and Wishart pp. 178-180

Tim Butler

Georgina Blakeley and Brendan Evans 2013: The Regeneration of East Manchester: A Political Analysis. Manchester: University of Manchester Press pp. 180-181

Kevin Ward

Bowen Paulle 2013: Toxic Schools. High-poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 181-183

Julia Nast

Jason Young 2013: China's Hukou System: Markets, Migrants, and Institutional Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 183-184

Will Buckingham