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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Urban Indigenous Assemblages by Ana Vivaldi 🔍 Reviewer Coline Chevrin (City University of New York) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why do NIMBY movements erupt against refugee camps in Greece? A look at how top-down migration governance and media coverage shape the production of space. By Alexandra Makridou, Ioannis Frangopoulos & Nikos Kapitsinis 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/http...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chinese universities are property developers too. Two aging campuses in Nanjing rebranded themselves as “innovation complexes” — with very different outcomes. By Hao Chen & Yunpeng Zhang 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/chin...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From mining town to Olympic host: how Chongli, China turned a mountain into a “territorial business model” for the 2022 Winter Games, blending tourism, housing and green finance. By Thierry Theurillat & Mengke Zhang 📖 tinyurl.com/5apwusd3

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What happens when venture capital tries to reinvent housing? This article traces the rapid expansion of co-living real estate start-ups, revealing how the pursuit of scale reshapes housing markets—and shifts the costs onto tenants. By Tim White www.ijurr.org/article/hype...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This article explores how residents of Bar Elias, Lebanon, use participatory filmmaking to make visible the slow violence and uneven impacts of pollution. By Hannah Sender, Hanna Baumann & Joana Dabaj 📖 tinyurl.com/ya2me5e2

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What does it mean to “close the carbon loop”? This article examines Toronto’s waste-to-biofuel program, exploring how waste, energy systems, emissions accounting, and climate policy intersect in the pursuit of net zero. By Taylor Davey 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/clos...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Read now in The Urban Now: Unmaking the Footpath: Ontological Violence and Urban Sanitization in Delhi By @vdhanda.bsky.social 🌃 www.ijurr.org/the-urban-no...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Who keeps urban climate policies moving when projects end? Drawing on cases from Mexico and India, this article examines the intermediaries who build continuity over time. By Hanna Hilbrandt, Erandi Barroso Olmedo & Fritz-Julius Grafe 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📍 RC21 Vienna is here! We've launched a new IJURR Virtual Issue: Vienna at the Crossroads. Read it here👇 www.ijurr.org/virtual-issu... #rc21vienna2026 #rc21 @rc21.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @ifswien.bsky.social

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

📢 Now in Early View Security Zones as ‘New Cities’: Public-Private Partnership and the Transformation of Land Use in Accra, Ghana By Isaac K. Arthur, Robert Lawrence Afutu-Kotey & Irene Appeaning Addo 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/secu...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights The Right to Be Counted by Sanjeev Routray. 🔍 Reviewer Sara Shneiderman (University of British Columbia) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📢 Now in Early View The Chainmaker: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives Over Time By Hanna Hilbrandt, Erandi Barroso Olmedo & Fritz-Julius Grafe 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

From overcrowded tenements to rising rental burdens, this article maps the changing geography of housing inequality across European cities over more than a century. By Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller, Ria Wilken 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/hous...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Can cities move beyond growth-centric thinking? This article examines how decision-makers in the Netherlands and Finland came to accept urban shrinkage as a long-term condition and rethink policy responses. By Marjan Marjanović, Johanna Lilius 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/what...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What happens when rental housing becomes an asset? This article examines how institutional investors transformed Sweden’s rental market and how rising interest rates have intensified conflicts over housing. By Jennie Gustafsson 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/main...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Local expertise matters. This article examines how social movements in Argentina worked with the state to recognize informal settlements and shape a national urban upgrading policy. By Alejandra Cueto 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/know...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Housing financialization is reshaping Toronto’s rental market. This article examines how corporate landlords drive evictions in Black-majority neighbourhoods—and how tenant organizing is building housing justice. By Nemoy Lewis, Dimitri Panou & Richard Maaranen 📖 tinyurl.com/44j4aev6

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI, edited by Federico Cugurullo and colleagues. 🔍 Reviewer Alfie Greenwood (University College London) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Urban metabolism is being redesigned. Focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead, this article investigates how new landscape interventions reveal some urban processes while obscuring others. By Ben Platt, Zuhri James 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Using Kochi as a case study, this article examines how smart city control rooms transform institutions, infrastructures, and imaginaries of urban governance in India. By Devika Prakash, Andrew Karvonen, Jonathan Metzger 📖 tinyurl.com/3ev8ppuy

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

City branding is never just about image. Using Dalian as a case study, this article shows how branding-driven urban development can advance political careers while producing uneven social outcomes. By Chen Li & Di Wu 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/plac...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

From cement extraction to rice solidarity during the pandemic, this article examines how city and non-city inhabitants forge political connections across the spaces of urbanization By Isnu Putra Pratama, Delik Hudalah, Haryo Winarso, Tim Bunnell 📖 tinyurl.com/4myp6xe6

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights The Urban Brain by Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald. 🔍 Reviewer Richard Harris (McMaster University) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

An intra-urban comparison of Kibera and Eastleigh reveals how pandemic-era water experiences were shaped by longstanding infrastructural inequalities and uneven state intervention. By Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/expe...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

From aggregate mines on Jakarta’s outskirts to the city’s flood barriers, this article follows the material and labour flows that metabolically sustain urban climate infrastructure. By Sophie Webber & Wahyu Kusuma Astuti 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Urban land use–food system integration in Australia is uneven. This article develops a what–why–how framework to assess barriers, drivers, and pathways for more effective policy integration. By Lijun Summerhayes, Douglas Baker 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/inte...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Beyond traffic control: street enforcement as a project of moral regulation, nation-building, and cultural growth in urban China. By Gregory Fayard 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/stre...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights The Suburban Frontier by Claire Mercer. 🔍 Reviewer Deborah Fromm (London School of Economics and Political Science) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

📢 Available in Early View Knowing Like a Movement: The Role of Local Expertise in Informal Housing Policies By Alejandra Cueto 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/know...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Slow Harms and Citizen Action by Veronica Herrera. 🔍 Reviewer Alexandre Fontenelle-Weber (University of São Paulo) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

📢 Also available in Early View ‘Closing the Carbon Loop’: Climate Policy Discourses and the Material Politics of Municipal Waste-to-biofuel Programs By Taylor Davey 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/clos...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

📢 Now in Early View Financialized Green State Entrepreneurialism and the Urbanization of Mountains: Chongli’s Consumption-based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics By Thierry Theurillat & Mengke Zhang 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/fina...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🚨 Call for Proposals! IJURR symposia are back 🌉 Deadline: May 1 - 2026 👉 More info: ijurr.org/news/ijurr-s...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

'The Others of Tent Cities' examines how the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes transformed communal displacement spaces into sites of emotional othering, deepening divides between locals and non-locals. By Handan Akyigit et al. 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Right to the Campsite examines how Dutch caravan dwellers articulate practical demands for inclusive spaces amid a century of housing oppression and hollow post-2018 policy reform. By Dominic Teodorescu 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/righ...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This article extends Loïc Wacquant’s theory of the ghetto through an analysis of Roma camps in Turin, highlighting their role in symbolic ghettoization and habitus formation. By Vincenzo Romania & Tommaso Bertazzo 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/from...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Serving the Public by Kevin Morgan. 🔍 Reviewer Frank Moulaert (KU Leuven) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

How do citizens providing their own services reshape state sovereignty? This article examines off-grid infrastructure strategies across income levels in South Africa. By Anciano, Lemanski, Culwick Fatti & Rubin 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/subs...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

How do elites claim citizenship without legal property rights? In Delhi’s Sainik Farms, affluent residents use cultural and spatial practices to access entitlements while mimicking formal settlements. By Vivek Mishra 📖 tinyurl.com/mucne2cj

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🌃 New Virtual Issue — Die or Care: Local Responses in Times of Crisis Explore it now 👇 www.ijurr.org/virtual-issu...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Heritage urbanism is reshaping cities worldwide. Focusing on Kyoto, this paper explores how tourism-driven housing fuels overtourism, displacement, and local tensions—while cities try to preserve what makes them unique. By Matthew B. Anderson 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The Illusion of Flexibility explores why homeownership remains dominant in Brazil despite rising rentals, revealing delays in aspirations shaped by inequality and market limits. By Rafael Kalinoski & Mario Prokopiuk 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Fragmenting Cities by Troels Schultz and Kristian Nagel. 🔍 Reviewer Anthony Miro Born (London School of Economics and Political Science) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Despite limited planning, Douala's urban development is shaped by municipal officials. This article explores construction permits, highlighting the rules that structure urban fabric beyond the formal/informal divide. By Ludovic Bakebek 📖 tinyurl.com/2ekjc4dt

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

State-Led Ruralization and Its Urban Entanglements examines how state agencies deliberately reshape rural social space through land policy, tracing its entanglement with urbanization through agrarian corporatization in Hunan, China. By Ettore Santi 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/stat...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

🌉 IJURR at AAG 2026 | San Francisco Join us for the IJURR Lecture by Erin McElroy and explore our new Virtual Issue on San Francisco. Check it out 👇 www.ijurr.org/ijurr-at-the...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

📢 Now in Early View: The Urban Metabolism of Flood Protection Infrastructure in Jakarta, Indonesia By Sophie Webber & Wahyu Kusuma Astuti 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...

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