Since its foundation in 1977 IJURR has been at the cutting-edge of critical urban scholarship. IJURR is taking forward its commitment to interdisciplinary and international urban research, connecting with new audiences and debates, consolidating its position as a leading publication in the field.
- Explores questions and themes of interest to a wide readership including urban planners, architects and practitioners.
- Includes both stand-alone articles and critical dialogues
- Connects with critical debates in the policy-making and professional arenas
- Uses visual materials ranging from architectural sketches, film stills and photographs to various explanatory figures and tables
Table of Contents
Articles
Sunken Cities: Climate Change, Urban Futures and the Imagination of Submergence (Paul Dobraszczyk)
Worlding Water Supply: Thinking Beyond the Network in Jakarta (Kathryn Furlong and Michelle Kooy)
Urban Warfare Ecology: A Study of Water Supply in Basrah (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 (Prathiwi W. Putri and Frank Moulaert)
Writing Across Contexts: Urban Informality and the State in Tallinn, Bafatá and Berlin (Hanna Hilbrandt, Susana Neves Alves and Tauri Tuvikene)
Symposium
Spatial Spillovers Revisited: Innovation, Human Capital and Local Dynamics (Tuzin Baycan, Peter Nijkamp and Roger Stough)
Towards a New Conceptualization of Innovation in Space: Territorial Patterns of Innovation (Roberta Capello)
Creating an Environment for Economic Growth: Creativity, Entrepreneurship or Human Capital? (Alessandra Faggian, Mark Partridge and Edward J. Malecki)
The Geography of Innovation in China and India (Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose)
Book Reviews
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 (Robert Beauregard)
Stephen Graham 2016: Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers. London: Verso (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 (Eric Verdeil)
Martina Löw 2016: The Sociology of Space: Materiality, Social Structures, and Action. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (Margarethe Kusenbach)
Antonio Loris 2015: Water, State and the City. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (José Esteban Castro)
Rowland Atkinson and Sarah Blandy 2017: Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front. Manchester: Manchester University Press (Don Mitchell)
Françoise Montambeault 2016: The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Institutions, Actors, and Interactions. Stanford: Stanford University Press (Wagner de Melo Romão)
Robert Saliba (ed.) 2015: Urban Design in the Arab World: Re-conceptualizing Boundaries. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate (Yaser Abunnasr)
