International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 40, Issue 3

by Gandy, Matthew; Kaika, Maria; Roy, Ananya; Wu, Fulong

• ISBN13: 9781119383208
• ISBN10: 111938320X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-06-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

Matthew Gandy: University of Cambridge, UK.

Maria Kaika: University of Manchester, UK.

Ananya Roy: UCLA, Luskin, USA.

Fulong Wu: University College London, UK.

Table of Contents

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 (Ayşe Çavdar)
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 Borgonyà, 1895–1930 (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 Urban–Suburban 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 Côté-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)