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The critical edge of research on cities and regions
The critical edge of research on cities and regions
This study explores how religion, caste, and occupation shape spatial practices in Mumbai’s most famous informal settlement—and how planning can better reflect them.
By Ayesha Mueller-Wolfertshofer
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By Ayesha Mueller-Wolfertshofer
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November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This study explores how religion, caste, and occupation shape spatial practices in Mumbai’s most famous informal settlement—and how planning can better reflect them.
By Ayesha Mueller-Wolfertshofer
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By Ayesha Mueller-Wolfertshofer
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Framed by the analytic of the littoral, this article examines the destruction of Ennore Creek in north Chennai and develops ‘amphibious activism’ to describe how backwater fishers defend their degraded lifeworld.
By Lindsay Bremner, Nityanand Jayaraman, Karen Coelho
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By Lindsay Bremner, Nityanand Jayaraman, Karen Coelho
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November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Framed by the analytic of the littoral, this article examines the destruction of Ennore Creek in north Chennai and develops ‘amphibious activism’ to describe how backwater fishers defend their degraded lifeworld.
By Lindsay Bremner, Nityanand Jayaraman, Karen Coelho
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By Lindsay Bremner, Nityanand Jayaraman, Karen Coelho
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From India’s Western Ghats to Kochi’s construction sites, this article traces how failed colonial plantations have become sand extraction frontiers—revealing the ecological and urban legacies of “plantation urbanism.”
By Siddharth Menon
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By Siddharth Menon
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November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
From India’s Western Ghats to Kochi’s construction sites, this article traces how failed colonial plantations have become sand extraction frontiers—revealing the ecological and urban legacies of “plantation urbanism.”
By Siddharth Menon
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By Siddharth Menon
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November 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Now in Early View: The Missing People of State-Subsidized Housing: Lived Experiences of Non-Occupancy and Secondary Residential Mobility
By Raffael Beier
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By Raffael Beier
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November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Now in Early View: The Missing People of State-Subsidized Housing: Lived Experiences of Non-Occupancy and Secondary Residential Mobility
By Raffael Beier
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By Raffael Beier
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Coastal contact zones reveal how sea and land dynamics shape climate risk. Making lived experiences of adaptation visible to funders and planners is key to more just urban transitions.
By @jonschu.bsky.social
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By @jonschu.bsky.social
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November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Coastal contact zones reveal how sea and land dynamics shape climate risk. Making lived experiences of adaptation visible to funders and planners is key to more just urban transitions.
By @jonschu.bsky.social
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By @jonschu.bsky.social
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📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉
This week’s review spotlights Broken City by Patrick M. Condon.
🔍 Reviewer Susan S. Fainstein (Harvard University)
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This week’s review spotlights Broken City by Patrick M. Condon.
🔍 Reviewer Susan S. Fainstein (Harvard University)
📝 Read the full review:
www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
October 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉
This week’s review spotlights Broken City by Patrick M. Condon.
🔍 Reviewer Susan S. Fainstein (Harvard University)
📝 Read the full review:
www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
This week’s review spotlights Broken City by Patrick M. Condon.
🔍 Reviewer Susan S. Fainstein (Harvard University)
📝 Read the full review:
www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
As cities gain power in global affairs, are councils key players or sidelined observers? This study finds mayors still dominate international cooperation.
By Robert Gawłowski, Agnieszka Szpak, Joanna Modrzyńska, Paweł Modrzyński, Michał Dahl
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By Robert Gawłowski, Agnieszka Szpak, Joanna Modrzyńska, Paweł Modrzyński, Michał Dahl
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October 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
As cities gain power in global affairs, are councils key players or sidelined observers? This study finds mayors still dominate international cooperation.
By Robert Gawłowski, Agnieszka Szpak, Joanna Modrzyńska, Paweł Modrzyński, Michał Dahl
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By Robert Gawłowski, Agnieszka Szpak, Joanna Modrzyńska, Paweł Modrzyński, Michał Dahl
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Forced evictions in informal settlements are hard to track. This study introduces a new method combining satellite imagery and on-ground data to monitor displacement trends in cities of the Global South.
By Matthijs van Oostrum
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By Matthijs van Oostrum
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October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Forced evictions in informal settlements are hard to track. This study introduces a new method combining satellite imagery and on-ground data to monitor displacement trends in cities of the Global South.
By Matthijs van Oostrum
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By Matthijs van Oostrum
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The deadline for submissions to the 2025 IJURR Symposium is 1 November.
Submit your proposal!
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Submit your proposal!
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October 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The deadline for submissions to the 2025 IJURR Symposium is 1 November.
Submit your proposal!
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Submit your proposal!
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Have you ever visited Berlin's Tempelhof Park? This essay explores why this urban park is an extraordinary, almost utopian socio-spatial formation.
By Asef Bayat
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By Asef Bayat
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October 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Have you ever visited Berlin's Tempelhof Park? This essay explores why this urban park is an extraordinary, almost utopian socio-spatial formation.
By Asef Bayat
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By Asef Bayat
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This article explores panhuo (revitalization) in Shenyang, showing how socialist housing legacies are leveraged to retrofit infrastructure—revealing uneven outcomes and non-linear urban transitions.
By Yunjing Li & George C.S. Lin
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By Yunjing Li & George C.S. Lin
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October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This article explores panhuo (revitalization) in Shenyang, showing how socialist housing legacies are leveraged to retrofit infrastructure—revealing uneven outcomes and non-linear urban transitions.
By Yunjing Li & George C.S. Lin
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By Yunjing Li & George C.S. Lin
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How do school district and hukou policies shape parental choices and segregation in urban China? These constraints drive inequality, making education both a tool for and a barrier to mobility.
By Yuqing Zhang & Hyungchul Chung
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By Yuqing Zhang & Hyungchul Chung
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October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
How do school district and hukou policies shape parental choices and segregation in urban China? These constraints drive inequality, making education both a tool for and a barrier to mobility.
By Yuqing Zhang & Hyungchul Chung
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By Yuqing Zhang & Hyungchul Chung
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Comparing cases from Rotterdam and Brussels, this article develops a recognition-based framework to analyze how and why communities resist gentrification.
By Marijn Knieriem
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By Marijn Knieriem
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October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Comparing cases from Rotterdam and Brussels, this article develops a recognition-based framework to analyze how and why communities resist gentrification.
By Marijn Knieriem
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By Marijn Knieriem
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🌍 New IJURR Spotlight On: Counting the City 🌆
How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research?
This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination.
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How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research?
This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination.
👉 tinyurl.com/yc6333xa
October 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🌍 New IJURR Spotlight On: Counting the City 🌆
How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research?
This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination.
👉 tinyurl.com/yc6333xa
How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research?
This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination.
👉 tinyurl.com/yc6333xa
This article examines how Edmonton’s Rogers Place arena project reveals ties between urban redevelopment, settler colonialism, and displacement, challenging the myth of sport as a universal public good.
By Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Jordan Koch
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By Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Jordan Koch
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October 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This article examines how Edmonton’s Rogers Place arena project reveals ties between urban redevelopment, settler colonialism, and displacement, challenging the myth of sport as a universal public good.
By Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Jordan Koch
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By Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Jordan Koch
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How do radical-right cities navigate EU cultural policy? This article examines how Fidesz-led Hungarian cities used the European Capital of Culture initiative as a “boundary object” to align illiberal politics with liberal EU norms.
By Christian Lamour
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By Christian Lamour
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October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
How do radical-right cities navigate EU cultural policy? This article examines how Fidesz-led Hungarian cities used the European Capital of Culture initiative as a “boundary object” to align illiberal politics with liberal EU norms.
By Christian Lamour
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By Christian Lamour
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Cartographic reason often hides how spaces that seem accessible on maps can be inaccessible or hazardous in practice. The concept of the ferryman offers an alternative, embodied approach to accessibility.
By Pavel Doboš & Robert Osman
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By Pavel Doboš & Robert Osman
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October 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Cartographic reason often hides how spaces that seem accessible on maps can be inaccessible or hazardous in practice. The concept of the ferryman offers an alternative, embodied approach to accessibility.
By Pavel Doboš & Robert Osman
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By Pavel Doboš & Robert Osman
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Two decades on, motility remains central in mobility and migration studies. Using pan-European data and a Bourdieusian lens, this article shows how mobility capital reinforces inequalities while mediated by the nation-state.
By Niall Cunningham
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By Niall Cunningham
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October 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Two decades on, motility remains central in mobility and migration studies. Using pan-European data and a Bourdieusian lens, this article shows how mobility capital reinforces inequalities while mediated by the nation-state.
By Niall Cunningham
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By Niall Cunningham
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This article reframes suburban exclusion through infrastructural access, showing how transport policy in Stockholm has shaped inclusion, exclusion, and citizenship.
By André Klaassen & Greet De Block
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By André Klaassen & Greet De Block
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September 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This article reframes suburban exclusion through infrastructural access, showing how transport policy in Stockholm has shaped inclusion, exclusion, and citizenship.
By André Klaassen & Greet De Block
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By André Klaassen & Greet De Block
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By drawing on two case studies of “cheap sprawl” and bridging the North–South divide, this paper analyzes peri-urbanisation through extractivism. Land and homebuyers are exploited by public–private coalitions.
By Aurélie Delage, Max Rousseau
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By Aurélie Delage, Max Rousseau
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September 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
By drawing on two case studies of “cheap sprawl” and bridging the North–South divide, this paper analyzes peri-urbanisation through extractivism. Land and homebuyers are exploited by public–private coalitions.
By Aurélie Delage, Max Rousseau
📖 tinyurl.com/4zh39ysn
By Aurélie Delage, Max Rousseau
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How do social movements in São Paulo turn vacant buildings into lasting housing commons? Cases of Dandara and Marisa Letícia show the power of self-management and collective protection.
By Daniël Bossuyt & Camila D'Ottaviano
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By Daniël Bossuyt & Camila D'Ottaviano
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September 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
How do social movements in São Paulo turn vacant buildings into lasting housing commons? Cases of Dandara and Marisa Letícia show the power of self-management and collective protection.
By Daniël Bossuyt & Camila D'Ottaviano
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
By Daniël Bossuyt & Camila D'Ottaviano
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📢 The September Issue of IJURR is out!
Explore cutting-edge research on urban politics, housing, mobility, inequality, and resistance from across the globe.
🔗 Read the full issue here: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...
Explore cutting-edge research on urban politics, housing, mobility, inequality, and resistance from across the globe.
🔗 Read the full issue here: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...
September 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
📢 The September Issue of IJURR is out!
Explore cutting-edge research on urban politics, housing, mobility, inequality, and resistance from across the globe.
🔗 Read the full issue here: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...
Explore cutting-edge research on urban politics, housing, mobility, inequality, and resistance from across the globe.
🔗 Read the full issue here: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...
🚨 Call for Proposals!
IJURR symposia are back 🎉
🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
👉 More info: www.ijurr.org/news/ijurr-s...
IJURR symposia are back 🎉
🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
👉 More info: www.ijurr.org/news/ijurr-s...
September 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨 Call for Proposals!
IJURR symposia are back 🎉
🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
👉 More info: www.ijurr.org/news/ijurr-s...
IJURR symposia are back 🎉
🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
👉 More info: www.ijurr.org/news/ijurr-s...
📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉
This week’s review spotlights Paradoxes of Emancipation by Dimitris Soudias
🔍 Reviewer Kallia Fysaraki (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA))
📝 Read the full review:
www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
This week’s review spotlights Paradoxes of Emancipation by Dimitris Soudias
🔍 Reviewer Kallia Fysaraki (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA))
📝 Read the full review:
www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉
This week’s review spotlights Paradoxes of Emancipation by Dimitris Soudias
🔍 Reviewer Kallia Fysaraki (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA))
📝 Read the full review:
www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
This week’s review spotlights Paradoxes of Emancipation by Dimitris Soudias
🔍 Reviewer Kallia Fysaraki (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA))
📝 Read the full review:
www.ijurr.org/book_review/...