Motivations of Citizens and Environmental NGOs examines how values, responsibility and agency drive the co-production of urban greenspaces in Beijing. By Luquan Liang, Jennifer Day & Sun Sheng Han 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/moti...

See how Chinese central government did to enable the public capture land value increase and fund urban infrastructure delivery. By Nannan Xu 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/chin...

“Industrial District Transitions” analyzes how zoning shapes agglomeration and industrial gentrification in changing urban industrial zones, drawing on comparative research in Melbourne. By Carl Grodach, Elizabeth Taylor, Joe Hurley & Declan Martin 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/indu...

🎉 2025 IJURR Best Article goes to Expert Fixers: Bureaucratic Informality, Brokerage and the Politics of Land in Mumbai by Sangeeta Banerji. 👉 www.ijurr.org/best-article...

The article examines how the sponsorship of temporary art at Berlin construction sites advances land speculation and gentrification while rebranding the real estate sector amid the city’s housing crisis. By Claudia Seldin 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/temp...

🌍🏘️📍 Check out Gatekeepers of the Urban Margin, a new Urban Now contribution. By Divine M Asafo, Austin Dziwornu Ablo, Godwin Odikro & Pln. Abubakar Mohammed-Mubeen 🔗 www.ijurr.org/the-urban-no...

“The Potential of Archives in Informal Placemaking” explores how commons-based archival practices can regenerate former mental asylums as living urban spaces and sites of collective memory. By Gozde Yildiz & Francesca Bianchi 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

“Force and Aspiration” examines how mobility—rather than income or tenure alone—shapes class formation on the rapidly changing peripheries of Addis Ababa. By Tom Goodfellow, Metadel Sileshi Belihu & Zhengli Huang 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/forc...

“Narratives of Smart Urbanism” examines how storytelling is used to legitimize the digitalization of urban public services and advance political agendas in Polish cities. By Mateusz Trochymiak, Anna Domaradzka, Monika Berdys & Celina Strzelecka 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/narr...

“Smart Cities Beyond Methodological Cityism” analyzes how smart city agendas in Southeast Asia operate as national development strategies, rescaling the ‘urban’ through branding and scalar flexing. By Prerona Das, Orlando Woods & Lily Kong 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/smar...

“How Non-Residents Derail Defensive Development” examines how school choice and non-resident attachments can disrupt community-led efforts to resist gentrification in Coral Gables, Florida. By Aarti Mehta-Kroll 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/how-...

“The Construction State Unbound?” presents an analysis of greenbelt deregulation and real estate–led urbanization in Seoul, highlighting the role of the construction state and social struggle. By Laam Hae & Jamie Doucette 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

Surface Tensions presents an ethnographic analysis of how roads and potholes shape political subjectivities, inequality, and everyday driving in urban India. By Sneha Annavarapu 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/surf...

The Contested Urbanism of Abandonment offers a comparative analysis of how abandonment shapes divergent social and spatial trajectories in two deindustrializing Detroit neighborhoods. By Martin J. Murray, María Arquero de Alarcón & Olaia Chivite Amigo 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

📢 Explore the new January issue — now available online! 👉 www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-50...

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉 This week’s intraview features Das Ende rechter Räume (The End of Right-Wing Spaces) by Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R. 🔍 Reviewer: Stefan Kipfer (York University, Toronto) 📝 Read the full intraview: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

📢 Also available in Early View: Relational Politics of Urban Metabolism: The Solidarity of City and Non-City Inhabitants in Java, Indonesia By Isnu Putra Pratama, Delik Hudalah, Haryo Winarso, Tim Bunnell 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/rela...

📢 Now in Early View: Smart City Control Rooms: The Rewiring of Local Governance Landscapes in India By Devika Prakash, Andrew Karvonen & Jonathan Metzger 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/smar...

📢 Now in Early View: Force and Aspiration: Mobility and Class Formation on the Peripheries of Addis Ababa By Tom Goodfellow, Metadel Sileshi Belihu & Zhengli Huang 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/forc...

📢 Now in Early View: Industrial District Transitions: Agglomeration and Gentrification in Urban Industrial Zones By Carl Grodach, Elizabeth Taylor, Joe Hurley & Declan Martin 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/indu...

📢 Now in Early View: Temporary Artwashing at the Construction Site: Curating Gentrification through Real Estate Marketing in Berlin By Claudia Seldin 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/temp...

📢 Also available in Early View: Right to the Campsite: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue Their Struggle for Inclusion By Dominic Teodorescu 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/righ...

📢 Now in Early View: Beyond the Paralysis of the Post-Political? The Micropolitical in Post-Political Participatory Planning in Copenhagen, Denmark By Stephanie Loveless 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/beyo...

📢 Available now in Early View: Class, Property Rights and Citizenship: Affluent Informal Settlements and the Cultural Production of Property in Delhi By Vivek Mishra 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/clas...

📢 Now in Early View: Smart Cities Beyond Methodological Cityism: Foregrounding Developmentalism, Scalar Flexing and the Rebranding of the ‘Urban’ By Prerona Das, Orlando Woods & Lily Kong 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/smar...

📢 Now in Early View: ‘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 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/el-b...

📢 New IJURR Virtual Issue on China Cities Explore the latest research on China’s diverse urban landscapes. Check it out 👇 www.ijurr.org/virtual-issu...

📢 Also available in Early View: Planet at the End of the City: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory By Kian Goh 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/plan...

📢 Now in Early View: How Non-Residents Derail Defensive Development: The Magnet School and Failed Wawa Gas Station in Coral Gables, Florida By Aarti Mehta-Kroll 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/how-...

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉 This week’s review spotlights The Zone by Justinien Tribillon. 🔍 Reviewer Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

📢 Also in Early View: “From Ghetto to Habitus Factory” Roma Camps in Italy: An Empirical Extension of Loïc Wacquant’s Theorization By Vincenzo Romania & Tommaso Bertazzo 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/from...

📢 Now in Early View: State-Led Ruralization and Its Urban Entanglements: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China By Ettore Santi 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/stat...

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/comm...

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/temp...

Join us for the next Cities Are Back in Town seminar, featuring a discussion on Housing Under Platform Capitalism 📖 Hybrid seminar — Sciences Po / Zoom Register here 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8aatxv @ucpress.bsky.social

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

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...

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/urba...

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...

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 📖 tinyurl.com/mr52mf37

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 📖 tinyurl.com/5bj3f2kx

The IJURR Editorial Board in its yearly meeting, thinking about how to keep being inclusive, rigorous and relevant. Collaborative hard work is the norm.

📚 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) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

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. 📖 tinyurl.com/mvdkee7z

Small-scale land speculation on Mandalay’s outskirts reveals how everyday actors—not just developers—reshape peri-urban space and contribute to displacement in the global South. By Francesca Chiu 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/beyo...

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/does...

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 📖 tinyurl.com/5y57dya9

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/sand...

📢 Explore the new November issue — now available online! 👉 www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...

Now in Early View: The Missing People of State-Subsidized Housing: Lived Experiences of Non-Occupancy and Secondary Residential Mobility By Raffael Beier 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...