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
Theorizing the Politicizing City (Mustafa Dikeē and Erik Swyngedouw)
The Work of a Few Trees: Gezi, Politics and Space (Sinan Erensü and Ozan
Karaman)
From Occupying Plazas to Recuperating Housing: Insurgent Practices in Spain
(Melissa Garcķa-Lamarca)
Staging Equality in Greek Squares: Hybrid Spaces of Political
Subjectification (Lazaros Karaliotas)
Tunisian Revolution: Neoliberalism, Urban Contentious Politics and the Right
to the City (Sami Zemni)
Articles
Urban Operating Systems: Diagramming the City (Simon Marvin and Andrés
Luque-Ayala)
Toward The Networked City? Translating Technological ideals and Planning
Models in Water and Sanitation Systems in Dar es Salaam (Jochen Monstadt and
Sophie Schramm)
Sisyphean Dilemmas of Development: Contrasting Urban Infrastructure and
Fiscal Policy Trends in Maputo, Mozambique (Gabriella Y. Carolini)
How to Mend a Fragmented City: a Critique of Infrastructural Solidarity'
(Laura Cesafsky)
Experimental Infrastructure: Experiences in Bicycling in Quito, Ecuador
(Julie Gamble)
Book Reviews
Anne Haila 2016: Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a Property State. Oxford:
Wiley-Blackwell (Callum Ward)
Asher D. Ghertner 2015: Rule By Aesthetics: World-class City Making in
Delhi. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Austin Zeiderman)
James Farrer and Andrew David Field 2015: Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal
Biography of a Global City. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (Laam
Hae)
Kate Maclean 2015: Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence: The
Medellķn Miracle. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Catalina Ortiz)
Talja Blokland, Carlotta Giustozzi, Daniela Krüger and Hannah Schilling
(eds.) 2016: Creating the Unequal City: The Exclusionary Consequences of
Everyday Routines in Berlin. Farnham: Ashgate (Ares Kalandides)
Nicholas Phelps 2016: Sequel to Suburbia: Glimpses of America's
Post-suburban Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Meg Holden)
Matthew Gandy: University of Cambridge, UK.
Maria Kaika: University of Manchester, UK.
Ananya Roy: UCLA, Luskin, USA.
Fulong Wu: University College London, UK.
