International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 44, Issue 4

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

• ISBN13: 9781119706564
• ISBN10: 1119706564
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-10-27
• 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.

Ananya Roy: UCLA, Luskin, USA.

Fulong Wu: University College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Articles
Lively Lands : The Spatial Reproduction Squeeze and the Failure of the Urban Imaginary (D. Asher Ghertner)
Subaltern Urbanization: Indian Insights for Urban Theory (Partha Mukhopadhyay, Marie‐Hélène Zérah, Eric Denis)
The Real Estate Frontier (Tom Gillespie)
‘The Miracle of Density': The Socio‐material Epistemics of Urban Densification (Federico Pérez)
Who Builds Cities in China? How Urban Investment and Development Companies Have Transformed Shanghai (Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley)
Popular Urbanization: Conceptualizing Urbanization Processes Beyond Informality (Monika Streule, Ozan Karaman, Lindsay Sawyer, Christian Schmid)
The Green Masterplan : Crisis, State Transition and Urban Transformation in Post‐Genocide Rwanda (Shakirah Esmail Hudani)
Urban Ecological Enclosures : Conservation Planning, Peri‐urban Displacement, and Local State Formations in China (Jesse Rodenbiker)
Urban Commoning as a Vehicle Between Government Institutions and Informality: Collective Gardening Practices in Tampere and Narva (Tarmo Pikner, Krista Willman, Ari Jokinen)
Interventions
Tracing the Provenance of Urbanist Ideals: A Critical Analysis of The Quito Papers (Philip Lawton)
Capturing the City (Robbie Peters)
(Non)Urban Humans: Questions for a Research Agenda (the Work the Urban Could Do) (Abdoumaliq Simone)
Book Reviews
Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw (eds.) 2019: How To Run a City Like Amazon and Other Fables. London: Meatspace Press James Ash, Rob Kitchin and Agnieszka Leszczynski (eds.) 2019: >Digital Geographies. London: Sage Beer, David 2019: The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception. London: Sage (Jeremy Williams)
Garrido, Marco Z. 2019: The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press (Liza Weinstein)
Holland, Alisha C. 2017: Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Omar Pereyra)
K. Murat Güney, Roger Keil and Murat Üçoğlu (eds.) 2019: Massive Suburbanization: (Re)Building the Global Periphery. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (Joris Sebastiaan Gort)
Ferretti, Federico 2018: Anarchy and Geography: Reclus and Kropotkin in the UK. London: Routledge (Hamish Kallin)
Barnett, Clive 2017: The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press (Alan Latham)