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-...

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/cont...

📚 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/...

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/acti...

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/moni...

The deadline for submissions to the 2025 IJURR Symposium is 1 November. Submit your proposal! 👉 ijurr.org/news/ijurr-s...

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/libe...

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/upli...

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/poli...

Comparing cases from Rotterdam and Brussels, this article develops a recognition-based framework to analyze how and why communities resist gentrification. By Marijn Knieriem 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/towa...

🌍 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

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 📖 tinyurl.com/2jhpjbh6

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 📖 tinyurl.com/j59nv9fx

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/maki...

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 📖 tinyurl.com/2fr4srvp

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 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/beyo...

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

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-...

📢 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