International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 42, Issue 3

by Dikec, Mustafa; Gandy, Matthew; Roy, Ananya; Wu, Fulong

• ISBN13: 9781119482468
• ISBN10: 1119482461
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-07-16
• 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

Mustafa Dikeç: École d’urbanisme de Paris (EUP) and LATTS, France. 

Matthew Gandy: University of Cambridge, UK. 

Ananya Roy: UCLA, Luskin, USA. 

Fulong Wu: University College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Articles

Sex Work, Sensory Urbanism and Visual Criminology: Exploring the Role of the Senses in Shaping Residential Perceptions of Brothels in Blackpool (Emily Cooper, Ian R. Cook, Charlotte Bilby)

Urban Politics as the Unfolding of Social Relations in Place: The Case of Sexually Transmitted Disease Investigation in Mid‐Twentieth‐Century Gay Seattle (Larry Knopp, Michael Brown, Will Mckeithen)

Urban Vigilantism: A Study of Anti‐Terror Law, Politics and Policing in Istanbul (Deniz Yonucu)

The Power of Group Stigmatization: Wealthy Roma, Urban Space and Strategies of Defence in Post‐socialist Romania (Remus Creţan, Ryan Powell)

How Interspersion Affects Class Relations (Marco Garrido)

Seeing Like a City‐State: Behavioural Planning and Governance in Egypt's First Affordable Gated Community (Nicholas Simcik Arese)

Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible: Redevelopment‐induced Displacement of Migrants in Shenzhen, China (Ying Liu, Stan Geertman, Frank van Oort, Yanliu Lin)

Territorial Stigmatization and Territorial Destigmatization: A Cultural Sociology of Symbolic Strategy in the Gentrification of Parkdale (Toronto) (Mervyn Horgan)

Global Best Practice or Regulating Fiction? Street Vending, Zero Tolerance and Conflicts Over Public Space in New York, 1980–2000 (Ryan Thomas Devlin)

Book Reviews

Tim Bunnell 2016: From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool through Malay Lives. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (Ola Söderström)

Goran Therborn 2017: Cities of Power: The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global. London and New York: Verso Books (Pelin Asci)

David Madden and Peter Marcuse 2016: In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis. London and New York: Verso Books (Havva Ezgi Dogru)

Kevin R. Cox 2016: The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception. New York: Syracuse University Press (Stijn Oosterlynck)

Fulong Wu 2015: Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China. New York: Routledge (Max D. Woodworth)

Llerena G. Searle 2016: Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press (Hanna Hilbrandt)

Theresa Enright 2016: The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty‐first Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Antoine Guironnet)

Justin B. Hollander, Erin Graves, Henry Renski, Cara Foster‐Karim, Andrew Wiley and Dibyendu Das 2016: Urban Social Listening: Potential and Pitfalls for Using Microblogging Data in Studying Cities. London: Palgrave Pivot (Alyson Lloyd)