International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 40, Issue 5

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

• ISBN13: 9781119421078
• ISBN10: 1119421071
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-07-05
• 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

Articles
Technologies of Translocality: Vegetables, Meat and Dresses in Arab Muslim Detroit (Kimberley Kinder)
Organizing The Ordinary City: How Labor Reform Strategies Travel to the US Heartland (Marc Doussard)
‘No Condition IS Permanent': Informal Transport Workers and Labour Precarity in Africa's Largest City (Daniel E. Agbiboa)
You have free access to this contentRethinking Urban Epidemiology: Natures, Networks and Materialities (Meike Wolf)
Controlling Mobility and Regulation in Urban Space: Muslim Pilgrims to Mecca in Colonial Bombay, 1880–1914 (Nick Lombardo)
A Transposition of Territory: Decolonized Perspectives in Current Urban Research (Anke Schwarz and Monika Streule)
Urban Political Ecologies and Children's Geographies: Queering Urban Ecologies of Childhood (Laura J. Shillington and Ann Marie F. Murnaghan)
Debates
‘Tuning Out' or ‘Tuning in'? Mobile Music Listening and Intensified Encounters with the City (Allan Watson and Dominiqua Drakeford-Allen)
Urban Sensing by Crowdsourcing: Analysing Urban Trip behaviour in Zurich (Dongyoun Shin)
Book Reviews
Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane (eds.) 2015: Territories of Poverty. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press (Aysegul Can)
Andrew R. Highsmith 2015: Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan and the Fate of the American Metropolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Joshua Akers)
Kimberley Kinder 2016: DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Samuel Walker)
Rachel Weber 2015: From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Brett Christophers)
Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Makarem and Taner Osman 2015: The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Stanford: Stanford University Press (Jürgen Essletzbichler)
Clarence N. Stone and Robert P. Stoker (eds.) in collaboration with John Betancur, Susan E. Clarke, Marilyn Dantico, Martin Horak, Karen Mossberger, Juliet Musso, Jefferey M. Sellers, Ellen Shiau, Harold Wolman and Donn Worgs 2015: Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Sébastien Lambelet)
Lars Maier (ed.) 2015: Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities, Inequalities. New York and London: Routledge (Ana Aceska)
Margarethe Kusenbach and Krista E. Paulsen (eds.) 2013: Home: International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (Peer Smets)