Full Description
Since its foundation in 1977 IJURR has been at the cutting-edge of critical urban scholarship. IJURR is taking forward its commitment to interdisciplinary and international urban research, connecting with new audiences and debates, consolidating its position as a leading publication in the field.Explores questions and themes of interest to a wide readership including urban planners, architects and practitioners.Includes both stand-alone articles and critical dialoguesConnects with critical debates in the policy-making and professional arenasUses visual materials ranging from architectural sketches, film stills and photographs to various explanatory figures and tables
Contents
Articles1 Economic Rationality Meets Celebrity Urbanology: Exploring Edward Glaeser's City (Jamie Peck)31 `Asset Price Urbanism' and Financialization After the Crisis: Ireland's National Asset Management Agency (Michael Byrne)46 Financializing Desalination: Rethinking the Returns of Big Infrastructure (Alex Loftus and Hug March)62 World Cities and the Uneven Geographies of Financialization: Unveiling Stratification and Hierarchy in the World City Archipelago (Michiel Van Meeteren and David Bassens)82 Animating The Urban Vortex: New Sociological Urgencies (Suzanne Hall and Mike Savage)96 Spaces of Extraction, Metropolitan Explosions: Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Boom in Latin America (Martin Arboleda)113 Accounts from Behind the Curtain: History and Geography in the Critical Analysis of Urban Theory (Slavomira Ferencuhova)132 Strategies for Comparative Urbanism: Post-socialism as a De-territorialized Concept (Tauri Tuvikene) Debates147 Social Sciences and Urban Studies: Goodbye to Paradigms? (Emilio Duhau)157 A Limitless Urban Theory? A Response to Scott and Storper's `The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory' (Oli Mould)164 Why Cities? A Response (Richard A. Walker)181 Debate on Global Urbanisms and the Nature of Urban Theory (Jennifer Robinson and Ananya Roy (eds.))187 Comparative Urbanism: New Geographies and Cultures of Theorizing the Urban (Jennifer Robinson)200 Who's Afraid of Postcolonial Theory? (Ananya Roy)210 It's Just the City After All! (Abdoumaliq Simone)219 The Twenty-First Century Quest for Feminism and the Global Urban (Linda Peake)228 Provincializing Critical Urban Theory: Extending the Ecosystem of Possibilities (Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard)236 Translational Global Praxis: Rethinking Methods and Modes of African Urban Research (Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse) Book Reviews247 Katherine Lebow Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56 and Kinga Pozniak Nowa Huta: Generations of Change in a Model Socialist Town (Elitza Stanoeva)249 Kiril Stanilov and Ludek Sykora (eds.) 2014: Confronting Suburbanization: Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (Stefan Bouzarovski)251 Kenny Cupers The Social Project: Housing Postwar France (Harald Engler)252 Carolyn T. Adams From the Outside In: Suburban Elites, Third-sector Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia (Todd Swanstrom)254 Emily E. Straus Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton, California (Yohann Le Moigne)256 Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism (Cristina Temenos)258 Andrew MacLaran and Sinead Kelly (eds.) Neoliberal Urban Policy and the Transformation of the City: Reshaping Dublin (Therese Kenna)260 Federico Caprotti Eco-cities and the Transition to Low Carbon Economies (Rachel Huxley)
