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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

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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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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

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November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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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

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November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The IJURR Editorial Board in its yearly meeting, thinking about how to keep being inclusive, rigorous and relevant. Collaborative hard work is the norm.
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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📚 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)

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November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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.

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November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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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

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November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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

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November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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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

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November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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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

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November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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📢 Explore the new November issue — now available online!

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November 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Now in Early View: The Missing People of State-Subsidized Housing: Lived Experiences of Non-Occupancy and Secondary Residential Mobility

By Raffael Beier

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November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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

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November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉

This week’s review spotlights Broken City by Patrick M. Condon.

🔍 Reviewer Susan S. Fainstein (Harvard University)

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October 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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

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October 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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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

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October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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The deadline for submissions to the 2025 IJURR Symposium is 1 November.

Submit your proposal!

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October 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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

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October 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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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...
October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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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

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October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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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...
October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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🌍 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.

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October 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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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

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October 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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

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October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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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...
October 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM