International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 43, Issue 1

by Dike�, Mustafa; Gandy, Matthew; Roy, Ananya; Wu, Fulong

• ISBN13: 9781119563266
• ISBN10: 1119563267
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-05-07
• Publisher: Wiley

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

Necrotecture: Lifeless Dwellings and London's Super]Rich (Rowland Atkinson)

The Forever Frontier of Urbanism: Historicizing Persian Gulf Cities (Alex Boodrookas, Arang Keshavarzian)

Placing Property: Theorizing the Urban from Settler Colonial Cities (Naama Blatman]Thomas, Libby Porter)

Constructing Cityscapes: Locality, Materiality and Territoriality on the Urban Construction Site in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Northwest China (Madlen Kobi)

Urban Political Ecology Beyond Methodological Cityism (Creighton Connolly)

Infrastructure's Expenditures: Changi Airport, Food Cargo and Capital's Technosphere (Weiqiang Lin)

Fungible Space: Competition and Volatility in the Global Logistics Network (Martin Danyluk)

Greening Displacements, Displacing Green: Environmental Subjectivity, Slum Clearance, and the Embodied Political Ecologies of Dispossession in Mumbai (Sapana Doshi)

Grabbed Urban Landscapes: Socio]spatial Tensions in Green Infrastructure Planning in Medellín (Isabelle Anguelovski, Clara Irazábal]Zurita, James J.T. Connolly)

Cooperative Islands in Capitalist Waters: Limited]equity Housing Cooperatives, Urban Renewal and Gentrification (Lorenzo Vidal)

Contested Development: Homeless Property, Police Reform, and Resistance in Skid Row, LA (Deshonay Dozier)

Book reviews

Phil Hubbard 2017: The Battle for the High Street: Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust. London: Palgrave MacmillanSara González (ed.) 2018: Contested Markets, Contested Cities: Gentrification and Urban Justice in Retail Spaces. Abingdon: Routledge (Anthony Miro Born)

Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis (eds.) 2017: The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age. Ithaca, NY: Cornwell University Press (Catharina Thörn)

AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse 2017: New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times. Cambridge: Polity Press (Michele Lancione)

Winifred Curran 2018: Gender and Gentrification. New York: Routledge (Rachel Weber)

Melody L. Hoffmann 2016: Bike Lanes are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (Alan Latham)

Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet and Yasmine Siblot 2016: The France of the Little]middles. A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris. New York and Oxford: Berghahn (Max Rousseau)

Jaime A. Alves 2018: The Anti]black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Graham Denyer Willis)