Urban Research & Practice

2014 - 2026

Current editor(s): Professor Rob Atkinson

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Volume 7, issue 3, 2014

The development of cities and municipalities in Central and Eastern Europe: introduction for a special issue of ‘urban research and practice’ pp. 255-257

Martin T.W. Rosenfeld and Albrecht Kauffmann

The governance of urban shrinkage in cities of post-socialist Europe: policies, strategies and actors pp. 258-277

Dieter Rink, Chris Couch, Annegret Haase, Robert Krzysztofik, Bogdan Nadolu and Petr Rumpel

Planning trajectories in post-socialist cities: patterns of divergence and change pp. 278-301

Sasha Tsenkova

Integrate to compete: Gdańsk–Gdynia metropolitan area pp. 302-319

Iwona Sagan

The impact of local factors on the scope of benefits from public investment: the case of tourism infrastructure in Saxon municipalities pp. 320-336

Albrecht Kauffmann and Martin T.W. Rosenfeld

International hubs as a factor of local development: evidence from Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, and Leipzig, Germany pp. 337-353

Markus Hesse

Cities that talk: urban resistance as challenges for urban planning pp. 354-358

Nadia Caruso, Feras Hammami, Ender Peker, Simone Tulumello and Lauren Ugur

UN Habitat, State of the World’s Cities 2012/13 – prosperity of cities, London, Earthscan, 2013, 184 pp., ISBN 13: 978-0-415-83888-7. Tab. Graph. Images pp. 359-360

Mario Artuso

City rules: how regulations affect urban form, by Emily Talen, Washington, DC, Island Press, 2012, xiii + 236 pp., $70.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-59726-691-8/$35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-59726-692-5 pp. 361-362

Ombretta Caldarice

Volume 7, issue 2, 2014

Introduction: Toward output legitimacy in local government? pp. 119-122

Annelin Gustavsen, Asbjørn Røiseland and Jon Pierre

Mirror of the state or independent image? - Conceptual perspectives on the question of a legitimacy shift to the output dimension in local democracy pp. 123-136

Michael Haus

Local policies and local government legitimacy. The Swedish case pp. 137-152

Katarina Roos and Anders Lidström

Beyond 'What do I get?' Functional and procedural sources of Dutch citizens' satisfaction with local democracy pp. 153-168

Bas Denters

Councillors' perspectives on democratic legitimacy in English local government: politics through provision? pp. 169-181

Colin Copus

Democratic metropolitan governance: experiences in five German metropolitan regions pp. 182-199

Karsten Zimmermann

Procedure or performance? Assessing citizen's attitudes toward legitimacy in Swedish and Norwegian local government pp. 200-212

Annelin Gustavsen, Asbjørn Røiseland and Jon Pierre

What if performance accountability mechanisms engender distrust? pp. 213-227

Vicki Johansson and Stig Montin

'The Rhinish Greeks'. Bailout funds for local government in German federal states pp. 228-240

Hubert Heinelt and Philipp Stolzenberg

Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe, edited by Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein and Aglaée Degros, New York and London, Routledge, 2014, xi + 217 pp., £27.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-64055-8 pp. 241-242

Pedro Gomes

Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy & Urban Space, by Annika Marlen Hinze, Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota Press, 2013, xxix + 201 pp., $25.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8166-7815-0 pp. 243-244

Matthew G. Hannah

Negotiating cohesion, inequality and change: uncomfortable positions in local government, by Hannah Jones, Bristol, Policy Press, 2013, 237 pp, £70.00 (Hardback), ISNB 978-1-4473-1003-7 pp. 244-246

Tom Collins

Resilient sustainable cities - a future, edited by Leonie J. Pearson, Peter W. Newton and Peter Roberts, New York, Routledge, 2014, xii + 254 pp., £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-81621-2 / £105.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-81620-5 pp. 246-248

Emma Terama

Urban Politics: Critical Approaches, edited by Mark Davidson and Deborah Martin, London, Sage, 2013, 235 pp, £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-85702-398-8 pp. 248-250

Eric Sarmiento

The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence by Yvonne Rydin, Bristol, Policy Press, 2013, viii + 232 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-44730-840-9 pp. 250-252

Anthony Levenda

The collaborating Planner? Practitioners in the neoliberal age, by Ben Clifford and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Bristol, The Policy Press, 2013, xii + 288 pp., £70.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-44730-511-8 pp. 252-254

Carlos Nunes Silva

Volume 7, issue 1, 2014

Facilitated and emergent social learning in sustainable urban redevelopment: exposing a mismatch and moving towards convergence pp. 1-19

Meg Holden, Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani and Andy Scerri

Living together privately: for a cautious reading of cohousing pp. 20-34

Francesco Chiodelli and Valeria Baglione

Twin cities in the process of metropolisation pp. 35-55

Evert Meijers, Marloes Hoogerbrugge and Koen Hollander

Planning for military real estate conversion: collaborative practices and urban redevelopment projects in two Italian cities pp. 56-73

Davide Ponzini and Marco Vani

Between suburbanisation and re-urbanisation: revisiting the urban life cycle in a Mediterranean compact city pp. 74-88

Vittorio Gargiulo Morelli, Kostas Rontos and Luca Salvati

The Oslo transport packages 1–3: success by local initiatives pp. 89-100

Tor Bysveen

Exchange of knowledge and expertise for sustainable urban development: experiences from cross-disciplinary and transnational cooperation between practitioners and researchers in the Öresund region pp. 101-106

Elisabeth Dalholm Hornyanszky

Introduction to the book review special issue: insight into the contemporary cities: narratives and images of five European cities pp. 107-109

Caterina Testa

London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital?, edited by Gavin Poynter, Ian MacRury, Andrew Calcutt, Farnham, Ashgate, 2012, 362 pp. (hardback), £58.50, ISBN 9781409431022 pp. 110-111

Caterina Testa

Thinking Barcelona. Ideologies of a Global City. by Edgar Illas Liverpool University Press, 2012, 224pp, £70, ISBN 9781846318320 pp. 111-113

Elena Pede

Orienting Istanbul. Cultural Capital of Europe?, edited by Deniz Göztürk, Levent Soysal and Ipek Türeli, London and New York, Routledge, 2010, 336 pag., ISBN 978-0-415-58011-3 pp. 113-114

Giacomo Pettenati

Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989, by Claire Colomb, London and New York, Routledge, 2012, 358 pp., £34.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-59403-5 pp. 115-116

Nadia Caruso

Green Oslo. Visions, Planning and Discourse, edited by Mark Luccarelli and Peter Gunnar Røe, Ashgate, 2012, 293 pp. (hardback), £65.00, ISBN 9781409438960 pp. 116-118

Bianca Maria Seardo