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
State Theory from the Street Altar: The Muscles, the Saint and the Amparo (Julie‐Anne Boudreau)
‘The City of Our Dream’: Owambe Urbanism and Low‐income Women's Resistance in Ibadan, Nigeria (Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin)
Governmentality and Spatial Strategies: Towards Formalization of Street Vendors in Guangzhou, China (Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue, Yang Wang)
Uncertainty and the Governance of Street Vending: A Critical Comparison Across the North/South Divide (Jennifer Lee Tucker, Ryan Thomas Devlin)
Reconceptualizing Informal Work Practices: Some Observations from an Ethnic Minority Community in Urban UK (Peter Rodgers, Muhammad Shehryar Shahid, Colin C. Williams)
The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy (Francesco Chiodelli)
Displacing Informality: Rights and Legitimacy in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Mara Nogueira)
Weird Exoskeletons: Propositional Politics and the Making of Home in Underground Bucharest (Michele Lancione)
Interventions
Urban Informality and the State: Geographical Translations and Conceptual Alliances (Christian G. Haid, Hanna Hilbrandt)
The Myth of Formality in the Global North: Informality‐as‐Innovation in Dutch Governance (Rivke Jaffe, Martijn Koster)
Informality as Structure or Agency? Exploring Shed Housing in the UK as Informal Practice (Melanie Lombard)
Sovereignty Beyond the State: Exception and Informality in a Western European City (Giovanni Picker)
Juggling Legitimacies: Informal Places for Burials and Worship in Hong Kong (Josefine Fokdal)
Rule of Law and Rules‐Lawyering: Legal Corruption and ‘Reprivatization Business’ in Warsaw (Joanna Kusiak)
Informalization of the State: Reflections from an Urban World of Translations (Julie‐Anne Boudreau)
Book Reviews
Richard Sennett 2018: Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City. London: Penguin Books (Robert Beauregard)
Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel (eds.) 2018: The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press (Laura Kemmer)
Erik Swyngedouw 2018: Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post‐Political Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Jenny Mcarthur)
Barbara Schönig and Sebastian Schipper (eds.) 2016: Urban Austerity: Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Cities in Europe. Berlin: Theater der Zeit (Camerin Federico)
Giovanni Picker 2017: Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe. Abingdon: Routledge - Advances in Sociology Series (Ali Madanipour)
Andrew J. Diamond 2017: Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (Larry Bennett)
Tim Bunnell and Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.) 2018: Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present. Berlin: Jovis (Monika Grubbauer)
