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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research -

The critical edge of research on cities and regions
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Industrial District Transitions: Agglomeration and Gentrification in Urban Industrial Zones

By Carl Grodach, Elizabeth Taylor, Joe Hurley & Declan Martin

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January 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Temporary Artwashing at the Construction Site: Curating Gentrification through Real Estate Marketing in Berlin

By Claudia Seldin

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December 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Right to the Campsite: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue Their Struggle for Inclusion

By Dominic Teodorescu

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December 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Beyond the Paralysis of the Post-Political? The Micropolitical in Post-Political Participatory Planning in Copenhagen, Denmark

By Stephanie Loveless

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December 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Class, Property Rights and Citizenship: Affluent Informal Settlements and the Cultural Production of Property in Delhi

By Vivek Mishra

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December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Smart Cities Beyond Methodological Cityism: Foregrounding Developmentalism, Scalar Flexing and the Rebranding of the ‘Urban’

By Prerona Das, Orlando Woods & Lily Kong

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December 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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‘El Barrio No Se Vende / The ‘Hood Is Not for Sale’: Anti-Gentrification Activism and ‘Hood Solidarity from a Los Angeles Barrio

By Ashley C. Hernandez

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December 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
📢 New IJURR Virtual Issue on China Cities
Explore the latest research on China’s diverse urban landscapes.

Check it out 👇
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December 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Planet at the End of the City: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory

By Kian Goh

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December 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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How Non-Residents Derail Defensive Development: The Magnet School and Failed Wawa Gas Station in Coral Gables, Florida

By Aarti Mehta-Kroll

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December 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉

This week’s review spotlights The Zone by Justinien Tribillon.

🔍 Reviewer Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge)

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December 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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“From Ghetto to Habitus Factory” Roma Camps in Italy: An Empirical Extension of Loïc Wacquant’s Theorization

By Vincenzo Romania & Tommaso Bertazzo

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December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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State-Led Ruralization and Its Urban Entanglements: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China

By Ettore Santi

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December 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Populist rhetoric is reshaping urban planning.
Drawing on Minneapolis 2040, this article explores how planners can navigate conflict using communicative or agonistic approaches.

By Hanna Mattila, Aino Hirvola, Tom Borrup

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December 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Within the context of fifth-wave gentrification (Aalbers, 2019), what elements characterize the sense of neighbourhood belonging among middle-class residents of London’s post-Olympic East Village?

By Piero Corcillo

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December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Join us for the next Cities Are Back in Town seminar, featuring a discussion on Housing Under Platform Capitalism 📖

Hybrid seminar — Sciences Po / Zoom

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December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Downward-raiding and displacement fall short of explaining why some recipients leave state-subsidized units; their non-occupation is a demand-driven strategy to cope with shortcomings of top-down housing provision.

By Raffael Beier

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December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Migrants in El Raval confront urban heat injustice through precarity—but also build everyday adaptations and solidarities that resist unequal climates.

By Panagiota Kotsila, Valeria-Carolin Cuenca, Manuel Franco, Lourenço Melo, Sam Pickard

📖 www.ijurr.org/article/embo...
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Urban agriculture in South Korea is more than policy—it's a site of everyday governance. This study finds formal UA is challenged by local groups using UA as a platform to achieve their goals.

By Ilana Herold & Buhm Soon Park

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November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
How a nonprofit-led growth machine shaped the Obama Presidential Center—using soft power and private “community engagement” to sideline public oversight and local opposition.

By Virginia Parks, William Sites, Tadeo Weiner Davis

📖 www.ijurr.org/article/nonp...
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This article examines how Barcelona activists challenge fossil-fuelled aeromobility, linking climate justice with alternative visions of mobility and urban nature.

By Ersilia Verlinghieri, Rubén Martínez M., Mauro Castro, Alejandra López

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November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In Antananarivo, large-scale infrastructure isn’t just urban policy—it’s a strategy of presidential power. This study shows how megaprojects shape political survival, territorial control, and the state’s urban future

By @fvoelin.bsky.social, Lars Burr
@cdeunibe.bsky.social

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November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The IJURR Editorial Board in its yearly meeting, thinking about how to keep being inclusive, rigorous and relevant. Collaborative hard work is the norm.
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉

This week’s review spotlights The First City on Mars by Justin B. Hollander.

🔍 Reviewer Robert Cowley (King’s College London)

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November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The politics of space are central to the contested dynamics of memory-scapes and commemorative actions. Deniz Kimyon-Tuna examines the reproduction of post-traumatic urban spaces, focusing on the aftermath of the 10 October Ankara Train Station massacre.

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November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM