📢 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...

🚨 Call for Proposals! 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/...

Now in Early View: The Illusion of Flexibility: Housing Aspirations Across Generations in Brazil’s Formal Market By Rafael Kalinoski, Mario Prokopiuk 👉 ijurr.org/article/the-...

Available in Early View: Substituting for the State: The Sovereignty Impacts of Diverse Citizens’ Off-Grid Infrastructure Strategies in South Africa By Fiona Anciano, Charlotte Lemanski, Christina Culwick Fatti, Margot Rubin 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/subs...

Also available in Early View: Scoring High, Paying Up, Gating In: Middle-Class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa By Julien Migozzi 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/scor...

Now in Early View: The Commodification Gap and the Contradictory Dynamics of Cultural Monopoly Rent: Insights from Kyoto, Japan By Matthew B. Anderson 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉 This week’s review spotlights Outlaw Capital by Jennifer L. Tucker 🔍 Reviewer Frank I. Müller (Universidade de São Paulo) 📝Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

Available in Early View: The ‘Others’ of Tent Cities: Reconstruction of Social Order Through Emotions By Handan Akyigit, Sinem Yildirimalp, Hatice Turut, Fatma Zehra Tocoglu, Buşra Yigit 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

Now in Early View: Making Motility: Sociospatial Mobility as Capital By Niall Cunningham 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/maki...

Also available in Early View: Does Identity Have Space in Dharavi’s Redevelopment? Understanding the Interrelation of Hybridity and Identity in the Indian Context By Ayesha Mueller-Wolfertshofer 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/does...

Available in Early View: Urban Agriculture as a Platform of Everyday Governance: Case Studies of Policy and Practice in Three South Korean Community Gardens By Ilana Herold, Buhm Soon Park 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/urba...

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉 This week’s review spotlights The Danger Zone Is Everywhere by George Lipsitz 🔍 Reviewer Alexander Ferrer (University of California Los Angeles) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

Now in Early View: Negotiating Urban Formalities: The Social Regulation of Construction in Douala, Cameroon By Ludovic Bakebek 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/nego...

Available in Early View: Contested Good City Stories from a North Chennai Littoral By Lindsay Bremner, Nityanand Jayaraman, Karen Coelho 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/cont...

Also available in Early View: The Aftermath of the Ankara Station Massacre: The Agency of Urban Design in the Right to Memory By Deniz Kimyon Tuna 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

📢 Now in Early View: Territorializing Power: The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar By Fanny Voélin, Lars Buur 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/terr...

📢 Available now in Early View: Towards a Degrowth Critique of Aeromobilities: An Urban Political Ecology Perspective on the Airport Expansion Resistance in Barcelona By Ersilia Verlinghieri, Rubén Martínez Moreno, Mauro Castro, Alejandra López Martín 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/towa...

📢 Also available in Early View: Sand, Plantation Urbanism and the Extended Political Ecology of Infrastructures in India By Siddharth Menon 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/sand...

📢 Available in Early View: Beyond Planned Developments: Small-Scale Land Speculation and Displacement in Peri-Urban Myanmar By Francesca Chiu 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/beyo...

Interventions | Spaces of Withdrawal: Compassionate Cities Without Citizens By Morten Nielsen 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/spac...

Interventions | Economies of Empathy: Transactions in the Course of Being Urban By Yasmeen Arif 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/econ...

Interventions | Caring for Cats in Cairo: Urban Grammars of Compassion By Amira Mittermaier 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/cari...

Interventions | Responding to Murder: The City as a Site of Compassion for LGBTQ Activists in Bangladesh By Aeshna Badruzzaman 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/resp...

Interventions | Broken Infrastructures and Urban Spaciousness (Compassion) By Abdoumaliq Simone 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/brok...

Interventions | Compassion and the City By Yasmeen Arif 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/comp...

Cats and wildlife on Cape Town’s urban edge: This study shows how human–cat bonds shape urban ecologies—and how data and photos can help make animal lives visible and inform policy. By Nicoli Nattrass, Zoë Woodgate, Benjamin Wittenberg, Justin O'Riain 📖 tinyurl.com/ytb3dtvf

How did Chilean communities respond to the Covid-19 crisis? This article explores care, space, and collective action in Talca and Concepción amid state inaction. By Francisco Letelier T., Clara Irazábal, Javiera Cubillos A., Miguel Sepúlveda S. 📖 tinyurl.com/27epm5sy

What challenges arise when alternative values meet capitalist urbanization? Drawing on three Dutch housing projects, this paper shows struggles to redefine work, responsibility and sharing. By Emma Jo Griffith & Justus Uitermark 📖 tinyurl.com/kt9v7awx

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉 This week’s review spotlights For a Liberatory Politics of Home by Michele Lancione. 🔍 Reviewer Lorna Fox O'Mahony (University of Essex) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

📣 Call for Papers: Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki 🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025 🏹 Please spread the word!

This article develops the concept of “darkening” to explore how public rhetoric and policy criminalize informalized migrant labor—like sex work, domestic work, and street vending—in Spain, pushing it further into the shadows. By Begoña Aramayona 📖 tinyurl.com/59n6h2vv

Why are French business schools opening campuses in London, Berlin & Barcelona? This paper shows how city branding & entrepreneurial education converge—turning cities into tools to attract fee-paying students. By Alice Bobée 📖 tinyurl.com/2txdny8y

“Capturing Displacement” explores empirical, epistemological & methodological aspects of displacement. A Swedish case shows how mixed‑methods bridge ontological gaps. By Åse Richard, Marcus Mohall & Irene Molina 📖 tinyurl.com/2wnd5chp

How does the War on Terror impact the governance of urban social inequality ? By taking the Brussels-Capital Region. Alex Pijoan and Lore Janssens show how counter-terrorism policy contributes to the securitization of urban social inequality. 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/inte...

This four‑city study shows how mayoral and council leadership styles shape local economic development governance—and reveals a shift toward shared, collaborative leadership. By Georgina Blakeley, Francisco Collado C., Caroline Gray, Ángel Valencia S. 📖 tinyurl.com/wacffmyy

This article shows how Lisbon’s urban agriculture faces neo‑austerity barriers, as initiatives are co‑opted by real estate speculation and greenwashing, limiting their transformative potential, By António Ferreira, Ana Mélice Dias, Miguel Lopes 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/urba...

This article explores the micropolitics of electricity access in Kampala, Uganda. It reveals how informal actors mediate infrastructure access, shaping household experiences and complicating service delivery. By @penlopey.bsky.social 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/powe...

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Cooperative conditions by Anne Kockelkorn, Susanne Schindler and Rebekka Hirschberg 🔍 Reviewer Henrik Gutzon Larsen (Lund University) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

Data centers are central to the digital economy—but their massive spatial and environmental footprint is forcing cities like Amsterdam to rethink urban governance and infrastructure planning. By Jochen Monstadt & Katherine Saltzman 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/how-...

Why is ‘sustainability’ most popular at an urban scale? And why are ‘green’ cities in the Global North? This paper argues that there the capitalist class can most easily ‘green’ their investments—without confronting fossil capital. By @holgersen.bsky.social 📖 tinyurl.com/ycy4fbey

The July 2025 issue of IJURR is now online. Read the latest research in urban studies. 🔗 www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Urban Labyrinths by Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic 🔍 Reviewer Camila Saraiva (Center for Favela Studies, Universidade Federal do ABC) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

📣 Excited to join the ISA Forum in Rabat, July 6–11! IJURR will host a keynote by Michael Goldman and take part in an editors’ roundtable. Don’t miss our special virtual issue on North African Urban Studies. 🔗 www.ijurr.org/ijurr-at-the... #ISAForum2025 #UrbanStudies #IJURR

📢 Available in Early View: Temporary Belonging: Middle-Class Residential Experiences in London’s Post-Olympic East Village By Piero Corcillo 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/temp...

📢 Available in Early View: Embodying and Resisting Urban Heat Injustice: Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona By Panagiota Kotsila, Valeria-Carolin Cuenca, Manuel Franco, Lourenço Melo, Sam Pickard 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/embo...

📢 Available in Early View: Nonprofit-Led Neoliberal Growth Machines and the Privatization of Community Engagement: The Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side By Virginia Parks, William Sites and Tadeo Weiner Davis 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/nonp...

📢 Available in Early View: Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa By Jon Schubert 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/cont...

📢 Available in Early View: Towards a Better Understanding of the Gentrification–Resistance Nexus: A Comparative Case Study By Marijn Knieriem 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/towa...

📢 Also available in Early View: Sport-Related Gentrification: Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism By Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara and Jordan Koch 👉 ijurr.org/article/spor...