📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Au-delà de Dubaï by Roman Stadnicki 🔍 Reviewer Florian Bonnefoi (University Paris Cité) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
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📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Urban Indigenous Assemblages by Ana Vivaldi 🔍 Reviewer Coline Chevrin (City University of New York) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
Why do NIMBY movements erupt against refugee camps in Greece? A look at how top-down migration governance and media coverage shape the production of space. By Alexandra Makridou, Ioannis Frangopoulos & Nikos Kapitsinis 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/http...
Chinese universities are property developers too. Two aging campuses in Nanjing rebranded themselves as “innovation complexes” — with very different outcomes. By Hao Chen & Yunpeng Zhang 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/chin...
From mining town to Olympic host: how Chongli, China turned a mountain into a “territorial business model” for the 2022 Winter Games, blending tourism, housing and green finance. By Thierry Theurillat & Mengke Zhang 📖 tinyurl.com/5apwusd3
What happens when venture capital tries to reinvent housing? This article traces the rapid expansion of co-living real estate start-ups, revealing how the pursuit of scale reshapes housing markets—and shifts the costs onto tenants. By Tim White www.ijurr.org/article/hype...
This article explores how residents of Bar Elias, Lebanon, use participatory filmmaking to make visible the slow violence and uneven impacts of pollution. By Hannah Sender, Hanna Baumann & Joana Dabaj 📖 tinyurl.com/ya2me5e2
What does it mean to “close the carbon loop”? This article examines Toronto’s waste-to-biofuel program, exploring how waste, energy systems, emissions accounting, and climate policy intersect in the pursuit of net zero. By Taylor Davey 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/clos...
Read now in The Urban Now: Unmaking the Footpath: Ontological Violence and Urban Sanitization in Delhi By @vdhanda.bsky.social 🌃 www.ijurr.org/the-urban-no...
Who keeps urban climate policies moving when projects end? Drawing on cases from Mexico and India, this article examines the intermediaries who build continuity over time. By Hanna Hilbrandt, Erandi Barroso Olmedo & Fritz-Julius Grafe 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
📍 RC21 Vienna is here! We've launched a new IJURR Virtual Issue: Vienna at the Crossroads. Read it here👇 www.ijurr.org/virtual-issu... #rc21vienna2026 #rc21 @rc21.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @ifswien.bsky.social
📢 Now in Early View Security Zones as ‘New Cities’: Public-Private Partnership and the Transformation of Land Use in Accra, Ghana By Isaac K. Arthur, Robert Lawrence Afutu-Kotey & Irene Appeaning Addo 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/secu...
📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights The Right to Be Counted by Sanjeev Routray. 🔍 Reviewer Sara Shneiderman (University of British Columbia) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
📢 Now in Early View The Chainmaker: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives Over Time By Hanna Hilbrandt, Erandi Barroso Olmedo & Fritz-Julius Grafe 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
From overcrowded tenements to rising rental burdens, this article maps the changing geography of housing inequality across European cities over more than a century. By Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller, Ria Wilken 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/hous...
Can cities move beyond growth-centric thinking? This article examines how decision-makers in the Netherlands and Finland came to accept urban shrinkage as a long-term condition and rethink policy responses. By Marjan Marjanović, Johanna Lilius 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/what...
What happens when rental housing becomes an asset? This article examines how institutional investors transformed Sweden’s rental market and how rising interest rates have intensified conflicts over housing. By Jennie Gustafsson 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/main...
Local expertise matters. This article examines how social movements in Argentina worked with the state to recognize informal settlements and shape a national urban upgrading policy. By Alejandra Cueto 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/know...
Housing financialization is reshaping Toronto’s rental market. This article examines how corporate landlords drive evictions in Black-majority neighbourhoods—and how tenant organizing is building housing justice. By Nemoy Lewis, Dimitri Panou & Richard Maaranen 📖 tinyurl.com/44j4aev6
📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI, edited by Federico Cugurullo and colleagues. 🔍 Reviewer Alfie Greenwood (University College London) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
Urban metabolism is being redesigned. Focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead, this article investigates how new landscape interventions reveal some urban processes while obscuring others. By Ben Platt, Zuhri James 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
Using Kochi as a case study, this article examines how smart city control rooms transform institutions, infrastructures, and imaginaries of urban governance in India. By Devika Prakash, Andrew Karvonen, Jonathan Metzger 📖 tinyurl.com/3ev8ppuy
City branding is never just about image. Using Dalian as a case study, this article shows how branding-driven urban development can advance political careers while producing uneven social outcomes. By Chen Li & Di Wu 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/plac...
From cement extraction to rice solidarity during the pandemic, this article examines how city and non-city inhabitants forge political connections across the spaces of urbanization By Isnu Putra Pratama, Delik Hudalah, Haryo Winarso, Tim Bunnell 📖 tinyurl.com/4myp6xe6
📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights The Urban Brain by Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald. 🔍 Reviewer Richard Harris (McMaster University) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
An intra-urban comparison of Kibera and Eastleigh reveals how pandemic-era water experiences were shaped by longstanding infrastructural inequalities and uneven state intervention. By Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/expe...
From aggregate mines on Jakarta’s outskirts to the city’s flood barriers, this article follows the material and labour flows that metabolically sustain urban climate infrastructure. By Sophie Webber & Wahyu Kusuma Astuti 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
Urban land use–food system integration in Australia is uneven. This article develops a what–why–how framework to assess barriers, drivers, and pathways for more effective policy integration. By Lijun Summerhayes, Douglas Baker 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/inte...
Beyond traffic control: street enforcement as a project of moral regulation, nation-building, and cultural growth in urban China. By Gregory Fayard 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/stre...
