International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 41, Issue 5

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

• ISBN13: 9781119443216
• ISBN10: 1119443210
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-01-03
• 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
Spaces of the Expelled as Spaces of the Urban Commons? Analysing the Re-emergence of Squatting Initiatives in Rome (Cesare Di Feliciantonio)
Fragmentation in Urban Movements: The Role of Urban Planning Processes (Esin Özdemir and Ayda Eraydin)
From 'A Frontier Land' to 'A Piece of North Africa in Italy': The Changing Politics of 'Tunisianness' in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily (Ilaria Giglioli)
‘It is the People that Have Made Glen Innes’: State-led Gentrification and the Reconfiguration of Urban Life in Auckland (Renee Gordon, Francis L. Collins and Robin Kearns)
Urban Fortunes and Skeleton Cityscapes: Real Estate and Late Urbanization in Kigali and Addis Ababa (Tom Goodfellow)
‘Ruins of Modernity’: The Critical Implications of Unfinished Public Works in Italy (Pablo Arboleda)
Fast Parallels? Contesting Mobile Policy Technologies (Sally Weller)
Historicizing Urban Sustainability: The Shifting Ideals Behind Forus Industrial Park, Norway (Håvard Haarstad and Stina Ellevseth Oseland) 

Book Reviews
Margit Mayer, Catharina Thörn and Håkan Thörn (eds.) 2016: Urban Uprisings: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan (Bettina Engels)
Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark 2017: Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Right Activism in the United States, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015. Chichester, West Sussex: Studies in Social and Urban Change series, Wiley-Blackwell (Catharina Thörn)
Amy Starecheski 2016: Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Amanda Huron)
Costis Hadjimichalis 2014: Κρίση χρέους και εκποίηση γης [Debt Crisis and Land Dispossession]. Athens: ΚΨΜ Publications (John Sayas)
Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk (eds.) 2016: Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (Sven Daniel Wolfe)
Nikhil Anand 2017: Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (Sneha Annavarapu)