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
Re?Thinking Territorial Cohesion in the European Planning Context (Teresa Sį
Marques, Miguel Saraiva, Gonēalo Santinha, Paula Guerra)
Engineering the Financialization of Urban Entrpreneurialism: The JESSICA
Urban Development Initiative in the European Union (Dimitar Anguelov, Helga
Leitner, Eric Sheppard)
State?Led Financial Regulation and Representations of Spatial Fixity: The
Example of the Spanish Real Estate Sector (Ismael Yrigoy)
Demolishing the Present to Sell off the Future? The Emergence of
Financialized Municipal Entrepreneurialism in London (Joe Beswick, Joe
Penny)
The Neoliberalization of Municipal Land Policy in Sweden (Lina Olsson)
Old Wine in Private Equity Bottles? The Resurgence of Contract?for?Deed Home
Sales in US Urban Neighborhoods (Dan Immergluck)
Urban Redevelopment Policies on the Move: Rethinking the Geographies of
Comparison, Exchange and Learning (Kevin Ward)
A Small Entrepreneurial City in Action: Policy Mobility, Urban
Entrepreneurialism, and Politics of Scale in Jiyuan, China (Shenjing He,
Lingyue Li, Yong Zhang, Jun Wang)
PublicPrivate Partnerships and the Design Process: Consequences for
Architects and City Building (Martijn van den Hurk, Matti Siemiatycki)
China's Urban Speed Machine: The Politics of Speed and Time in a Period of
Rapid Urban Growth (Shiuh?shen Chien, Max D. Woodworth)
Book Reviews
Talja Blokland 2017: Community as Urban Practice. Cambridge: Polity Press
(Garry Robson)
Roger Keil 2018: Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In.
Cambridge and Medford, MA: Polity Press (Diego Garcķa Mejuto)
Els de Graauw 2016: Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics
of Integration in San Francisco. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (Thomas
Swerts)
Dimitris Dalakoglou 2017: The Road: An Ethnography of (Im)Mobility, Space,
and Cross?border Infrastructures in the Balkans. Manchester: Manchester
University Press (Nataa Gregori? Bon)
Lucy Earle 2017: Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social
Justice: The Right to the City in Sćo Paulo. London: Palgrave Macmillan
(Michael Cohen)
Hans?Liudger Dienel, M. Reza Shirazi, Sabine Schröder and Jenny Schmithals
(eds.) 2017: Citizens Participation in Urban Planning and Development in
Iran. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (Kian
Tajbakhsh)
Serhat Unaldi 2016: Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in
Downtown Bangkok. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (Keng?Khoon Ng)
Mustafa Dikeē: École durbanisme de Paris (EUP) and LATTS, France.
Matthew Gandy: University of Cambridge, UK.
Ananya Roy: UCLA, Luskin, USA.
Fulong Wu: University College London, UK.