📢 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-...

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...