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
Necrotecture: Lifeless Dwellings and London's SuperÂ]Rich (Rowland Atkinson)
The Forever Frontier of Urbanism: Historicizing Persian Gulf Cities (Alex Boodrookas, Arang Keshavarzian)
Placing Property: Theorizing the Urban from Settler Colonial Cities (Naama BlatmanÂ]Thomas, Libby Porter)
Constructing Cityscapes: Locality, Materiality and Territoriality on the Urban Construction Site in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Northwest China (Madlen Kobi)
Urban Political Ecology Beyond Methodological Cityism (Creighton Connolly)
Infrastructure's Expenditures: Changi Airport, Food Cargo and Capital's Technosphere (Weiqiang Lin)
Fungible Space: Competition and Volatility in the Global Logistics Network (Martin Danyluk)
Greening Displacements, Displacing Green: Environmental Subjectivity, Slum Clearance, and the Embodied Political Ecologies of Dispossession in Mumbai (Sapana Doshi)
Grabbed Urban Landscapes: SocioÂ]spatial Tensions in Green Infrastructure Planning in Medellín (Isabelle Anguelovski, Clara IrazábalÂ]Zurita, James J.T. Connolly)
Cooperative Islands in Capitalist Waters: LimitedÂ]equity Housing Cooperatives, Urban Renewal and Gentrification (Lorenzo Vidal)
Contested Development: Homeless Property, Police Reform, and Resistance in Skid Row, LA (Deshonay Dozier)
Book reviews
Phil Hubbard 2017: The Battle for the High Street: Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust. London: Palgrave MacmillanSara González (ed.) 2018: Contested Markets, Contested Cities: Gentrification and Urban Justice in Retail Spaces. Abingdon: Routledge (Anthony Miro Born)
Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis (eds.) 2017: The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age. Ithaca, NY: Cornwell University Press (Catharina Thörn)
AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse 2017: New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times. Cambridge: Polity Press (Michele Lancione)
Winifred Curran 2018: Gender and Gentrification. New York: Routledge (Rachel Weber)
Melody L. Hoffmann 2016: Bike Lanes are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (Alan Latham)
Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet and Yasmine Siblot 2016: The France of the LittleÂ]middles. A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris. New York and Oxford: Berghahn (Max Rousseau)
Jaime A. Alves 2018: The AntiÂ]black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Graham Denyer Willis)
