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
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
Articles
1 Economic Rationality Meets Celebrity Urbanology: Exploring Edward
Glaesers City (Jamie Peck)
31 Asset Price Urbanism and Financialization After the Crisis: Irelands
National Asset Management Agency (Michael Byrne)
46 Financializing Desalination: Rethinking the Returns of Big Infrastructure
(Alex Loftus and Hug March)
62 World Cities and the Uneven Geographies of Financialization: Unveiling
Stratification and Hierarchy in the World City Archipelago (Michiel Van
Meeteren and David Bassens)
82 Animating The Urban Vortex: New Sociological Urgencies (Suzanne Hall and
Mike Savage)
96 Spaces of Extraction, Metropolitan Explosions: Planetary Urbanization and
the Commodity Boom in Latin America (Martķn Arboleda)
113 Accounts from Behind the Curtain: History and Geography in the Critical
Analysis of Urban Theory (Slavomķra Ferenuhovį)
132 Strategies for Comparative Urbanism: Post-socialism as a
De-territorialized Concept (Tauri Tuvikene)
Debates
147 Social Sciences and Urban Studies: Goodbye to Paradigms? (Emilio Duhau)
157 A Limitless Urban Theory? A Response to Scott and Storpers The Nature
of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory (Oli Mould)
164 Why Cities? A Response (Richard A. Walker)
181 Debate on Global Urbanisms and the Nature of Urban Theory (Jennifer
Robinson and Ananya Roy (eds.))
187 Comparative Urbanism: New Geographies and Cultures of Theorizing the
Urban (Jennifer Robinson)
200 Whos Afraid of Postcolonial Theory? (Ananya Roy)
210 Its Just the City After All! (Abdoumaliq Simone)
219 The Twenty-First Century Quest for Feminism and the Global Urban (Linda
Peake)
228 Provincializing Critical Urban Theory: Extending the Ecosystem of
Possibilities (Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard)
236 Translational Global Praxis: Rethinking Methods and Modes of African
Urban Research (Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse)
Book Reviews
247 Katherine Lebow Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish
Society, 194956 and Kinga Pozniak Nowa Huta: Generations of Change in a
Model Socialist Town (Elitza Stanoeva)
249 Kiril Stanilov and Ludk Sżkora (eds.) 2014: Confronting Suburbanization:
Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe.
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (Stefan Bouzarovski)251 Kenny Cupers The Social
Project: Housing Postwar France (Harald Engler)
252 Carolyn T. Adams From the Outside In: Suburban Elites, Third-sector
Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia (Todd Swanstrom)
254 Emily E. Straus Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton,
California (Yohann Le Moigne)
256 Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the
Thresholds of Neoliberalism (Cristina Temenos)
258 Andrew MacLaran and Sinead Kelly (eds.) Neoliberal Urban Policy and the
Transformation of the City: Reshaping Dublin (Therese Kenna)
260 Federico Caprotti Eco-cities and the Transition to Low Carbon Economies
(Rachel Huxley)
Matthew Gandy: University of Cambridge, UK.
Maria Kaika: University of Manchester, UK.
Ananya Roy: UCLA, Luskin, USA.
Fulong Wu: University College London, UK.
