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.

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.

Articles

State Theory from the Street Altar: The Muscles, the Saint and the Amparo (Julie‐Anne Boudreau)

‘The City of Our Dream’: Owambe Urbanism and Low‐income Women's Resistance in Ibadan, Nigeria (Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin)

Governmentality and Spatial Strategies: Towards Formalization of Street Vendors in Guangzhou, China (Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue, Yang Wang)

Uncertainty and the Governance of Street Vending: A Critical Comparison Across the North/South Divide (Jennifer Lee Tucker, Ryan Thomas Devlin)

Reconceptualizing Informal Work Practices: Some Observations from an Ethnic Minority Community in Urban UK (Peter Rodgers, Muhammad Shehryar Shahid, Colin C. Williams)

The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy (Francesco Chiodelli)

Displacing Informality: Rights and Legitimacy in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Mara Nogueira)

Weird Exoskeletons: Propositional Politics and the Making of Home in Underground Bucharest (Michele Lancione)

Interventions

Urban Informality and the State: Geographical Translations and Conceptual Alliances (Christian G. Haid, Hanna Hilbrandt)

The Myth of Formality in the Global North: Informality‐as‐Innovation in Dutch Governance (Rivke Jaffe, Martijn Koster)

Informality as Structure or Agency? Exploring Shed Housing in the UK as Informal Practice (Melanie Lombard)

Sovereignty Beyond the State: Exception and Informality in a Western European City (Giovanni Picker)

Juggling Legitimacies: Informal Places for Burials and Worship in Hong Kong (Josefine Fokdal)

Rule of Law and Rules‐Lawyering: Legal Corruption and ‘Reprivatization Business’ in Warsaw (Joanna Kusiak)

Informalization of the State: Reflections from an Urban World of Translations (Julie‐Anne Boudreau)

Book Reviews

Richard Sennett 2018: Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City. London: Penguin Books (Robert Beauregard)

Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel (eds.) 2018: The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press (Laura Kemmer)

Erik Swyngedouw 2018: Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post‐Political Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Jenny Mcarthur)

Barbara Schönig and Sebastian Schipper (eds.) 2016: Urban Austerity: Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Cities in Europe. Berlin: Theater der Zeit (Camerin Federico)

Giovanni Picker 2017: Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe. Abingdon: Routledge—Advances in Sociology Series (Ali Madanipour)

Andrew J. Diamond 2017: Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (Larry Bennett)

Tim Bunnell and Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.) 2018: Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present. Berlin: Jovis (Monika Grubbauer)

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