International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 41, Issue 2

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

• ISBN13: 9781119442677
• ISBN10: 1119442672
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-10-30
• 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

Family or Money? The False Dilemma in Property Dispossession in Shanghai (Yunpeng Zhang)

Idioms of Accumulation: Corporate Accumulation by Dispossession in Urban Zimbabwe (Beacon Mbiba)

Negotiating the Politics of Exclusion: Georges Candilis, Housing and the Kuwaiti Welfare State (Asseel Al-Ragam)

The Weakness Of Symbolic Boundaries: Handling Exclusion Among Montevideo's Squatters (María José Álvarez-Rivadulla)

Breaking With Neoliberalization by Restricting The Housing Market: Novel Urban Policies and the Case of Hamburg (Anne Vogelpohl and Tino Buchholz)

Informal Housing in the United States (Noah J. Durst and Jake Wegmann)

Governed Through Ghost Jurisdictions: Municipal Law, Inner Suburbs and Rooming Houses (Lisa Freeman)

‘Generation Rent’ and The Fallacy of Choice (Kim Mckee, Tom Moore, Adriana Soaita and Joe Crawford)

The High-Rise Home: Verticality as Practice in London (Richard Baxter)

Interventions

Critically Interrogating Eco-Homes (Jenny Pickerill)

Book Reviews

Carolyn Gallaher 2016: The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-buy in Washington, DC. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (Derek Hyra)

Robert J. Chaskin and Mark L. Joseph 2015: Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-income Public Housing Transformation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (David Wilson)

Peter Herrle, Astrid Ley and Josefine Fokdal (eds.) 2015: From Local Action to Global Networks: Housing the Urban Poor. Farnham: Ashgate (Sonia Roitman)

Michaël Tatham 2016: With, Without, or Against the State? How European Regions Play the Brussels Game. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Nicole Bolleyer)

Eugenie L. Birch, Shahana Chattaraj and Susan M. Wachter (eds.) 2016: Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (Richard Harris)

Philip Harrison, Graeme Gotz, Alison Todes and Chris Wray (eds.) 2014: Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg after Apartheid. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (Alexandra Parker)

Filip de Boeck and Sammy Baloji 2016: Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds. London: Autograph ABP (Kacper Pobłocki)

Amale Andraos, Nora Akawi and Caitlin Blanchfield (eds.) 2016: The Arab City: Architecture and Representation. New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, Columbia University Press (Aya Nassar)