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
Symposium
Entrepreneurial Religion in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism (Stephan Lanz and
Martijn Oosterbaan)
Building, Marketing and Living in an Islamic Gated Community: Novel
Configurations of Class and Religion in Istanbul (Aye Ēavdar)
Building God's City: The Political Economy of Prayer Camps in Nigeria
(Asonzeh Ukah)
The Born-Again Favela: The Urban Informality of Pentecostalism in Rio de
Janeiro (Stephan Lanz)
Articles
Trump in Scotland: A Study of Power-Topologies and Golf Topographies (Erik
Jönsson)
Modernist Ideas and Local Reception: The company towns of Piazzola sul Brenta
and Borgonyą, 18951930 (Francesco Visentin)
Unseeing Chinatown: Universal Zoning, Planning Abstraction and Space of
Difference (Napong Tao Rugkhapan)
Post-Third-World City' or Neoliberal City of Exception'? Rio de Janeiro in
the Olympic Era (Matthew Aaron Richmond and Jeff Garmany)
Planning in Turbulent Times: Exploring Planners' Agency in Jerusalem
(Jonathan Rokem and Marco Allegra)
Recentralization as an Alternative to Urban Dispersion: Transformative
Planning in a Neoliberal Societal Context (Pierre Filion, Anna Kramer and
Gary Sands)
Beyond the UrbanSuburban Divide: Urbanization and the Production of the
Urban in Zurich North (Rahel Nüssli and Christian Schmid)
Book Reviews
Luna Khirfan 2014: World Heritage, Urban Design and Tourism: Three Cities in
the Middle East. Burlington: Ashgate (Erica Avrami)
Ola Söderström 2014: Cities in Relations: Trajectories of Urban Development
in Hanoi and Ouagadougou. Chichester: Studies in Urban and Social Change,
Wiley Blackwell (Mélissa Cōté-Douyon)
Roger Keil and Pierre Hamel (eds.) 2015: Suburban Governance: A Global View.
Toronto: Toronto University Press (Stijn Oosterlynck and Federico Savini)
Romain Pasquier 2015: Regional Governance and Power in France: The Dynamics
of Political Space. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (Deborah
Galimberti)
James M. Lindgren 2014: Preserving South Street Seaport: The Dream and
Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District. New York: New York University
Press (Robert Beauregard)
Edward Chell 2013: Soft Estate. Liverpool: The Bluecoat (Matthew Gandy)
Jürgen Von Mahs 2013: Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin. The
Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press (Katharina Schmidt)
Christine Hentschel 2015: Security in the Bubble: Navigating Crime in Urban
South Africa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Laura Nkula-Wenz)
Matthew Gandy: University of Cambridge, UK.
Maria Kaika: University of Manchester, UK.
Ananya Roy: UCLA, Luskin, USA.
Fulong Wu: University College London, UK.
