International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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RESPONDING TO MURDER: The City as a Site of Compassion for LGBTQ Activists in Bangladesh53
FROM GLOBALIZING TAIPEI TO LEARNING AMSTERDAM: Referencing as a Politicizing Strategy for Urban Development in Taiwan27
FRINGE FINANCIAL ECOLOGIES AND PLACE‐BASED EXCLUSION: A Tale of Two Cities27
TOXICITY 2: The Violence of Thresholds in Philadelphia25
UNPACKING CAPITAL SWITCHING: Value, Rentierism and Displacement in Absolute and Relative Forms of Switching21
DOES IDENTITY HAVE SPACE IN DHARAVI’S REDEVELOPMENT? Understanding the Interrelation of Hybridity and Identity in the Indian Context21
IMAGINING A DECOLONIZED CITY IN AND FROM AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND19
RECONSIDERING INCREMENTALISM : Implementing the Mumbai Climate Action Plan18
AESTHETIC POLITICS AND ELITEDRIVEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAN CITIES : The Case of Beautifying Sheger in Addis Ab18
ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL LABORATORY: Modernity, Cultural Revival, and Architectural Experiment in Peri‐urban China18
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UPLIFTING URBAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH REVITALIZATION ( PANHUO ): ‘Liv16
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KNOWING LIKE A MOVEMENT : The Role of Local Expertise in Informal Housing Policies16
TEMPORARY ARTWASHING AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE : Curating Gentrification through Real Estate Marketing in Berlin15
EMBODYING AND RESISTING URBAN HEAT INJUSTICE : Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona15
COLLECTIVELY GARDENING THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN MEXICO CITY: When Informal Practices Interact with the State15
CARE MATTERS IN THE ENTANGLED COMMONS : Perspectives on a Temporality of Urgency, Knowledge Co‐production and Infrastructures of Sociality in Diverse Urban Contexts15
CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL : The Subaltern Archive of Portarias14
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NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya13
THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA12
FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO ’S RENTAL MARKET : Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities12
ALL EYES ON ME’: The (In)Formal Barriers to Market Trade in Europe12
POLICYCONSTRAINED PARENTAL CHOICE AND SCHOOL DISTRICT SEGREGATION : Evidence from Local and Migrant Families in Suz12
PUBLICMAKING IN HYPERDIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York11
MEGAREAL ESTATE SPECULATION AND RACIALIZED DISPOSSESSION: Miami's Little Haiti11
THE LIMITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE: Public Transport in a Post‐colonial City11
URBAN AGRICULTURE IN NEOAUSTERITY TIMES: Reflections on a Contested Policy Domain11
AUGURAL TERRITORIES : On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range11
SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India10
STREETS AS STAGES : Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China10
GREEN INFORMALITIES AS SOCIALLY JUST ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Enduring with Dignity at the Edges of Resilient Development in Dhaka10
THE SCALAR ARRHYTHMIA OF LGBTQ2S SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES: An Analysis of the Peripheral Municipalities of a ‘Progressive’ City‐region10
RELATIONAL POLITICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: The Solidarity of City and Non‐City Inhabitants in Java, Indonesia10
SUBALTERN CONDITIONS OF RENTALUNFREEDOMS ’: Northeastern Migrant Women's Experiences of Gendered and Racialized Hou10
RE‐SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium‐Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France10
URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy10
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Heterogeneous Governance, Claims Making and Forced Eviction in a Megacity9
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RECONTEXTUALIZING TRANSIT ART : Cultural Narratives and Visual Governance across Beijing's Subway Network9
VERTICAL GEOGRAPHIES, POLYVOCALITY AND THE EVERYDAY IN A DIVIDED CITY9
WHO CAN AFFORD TO BE HUMAN? Struggling for Affordable Housing in East London9
THE POWER OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: What Does it Mean to do Critical Urban Scholarship from the South?9
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NEGOTIATING A CULTURAL ORDER FOR THE URBAN SPACE : The European Capital of Culture Initiative as a Boundary Object Mob9
IMPROVISING COVID RELIEF IN NEW DELHI: Rehearsal and Improvisational Capacity in Informal Student Networks8
THEY SUPPRESSED OUR RIGHTS WITH CONCRETE: Politics of Exclusion and (Im)permanence in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh8
ECONOMIES OF EMPATHY: Transactions in the Course of Being Urban8
INSURGENT HERITAGE: Mobilizing Memory, Place‐based Care and Cultural Citizenships8
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CLASS AT THE CROSSROADS: Reframing Disadvantage in Organizing Daily Wage Work in Western India8
TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENTRIFICATIONRESISTANCE NEXUS 8
JERUSALEM, A HOLY AND CREATIVE CITY: Advisory Practices and the Grounding of Urban Mobilities within the Context of Ethnic Conflict7
SMART CITIES BEYOND METHODOLOGICAL CITYISM : Foregrounding Developmentalism, Scalar Flexing and the Rebranding of the ‘Urban’7
STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona7
‘LET'S BEAT CRIME TOGETHER’: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi7
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TRANSFORMING SOCIAL HOUSING INTO AN ASSET CLASS: REITs and the Financialization of Supported Housing in England7
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THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction6
REWILDING BANGKOK: Critical Zones and the Cosmoecology of Parks and Protests6
TRADITIONAL GOVERNANCE IN THE COPRODUCTION OF URBAN RESILIENCE: Institutional Enablers and Political Constraints6
SPACES OF WITHDRAWAL: Compassionate Cities without Citizens6
PERIURBAN EXTRACTIVISM : The Political Economy of ‘Cheap Sprawl’6
UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta6
MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re‐arrangements6
PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN A POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXT: A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Land Use Planning in Morocco6
AGENCY AND POWER OF COASTAL COMMUNITIES: Assembling Micro Infrastructures as Everyday Resistance and Resilience in North Jakarta's Port6
INFORMALITY AS THE URFORM OF URBANITY: Keeping the Ur‐ in Urban Studies5
THE BENEFITS OF LARGE‐SCALE, MULTI‐SITE INTERNATIONALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS: An Example of New Academic Insights and New Funding Possibilities5
MONITORING URBAN DISPLACEMENT : A New Methodology for Tracking Informal Settlement Eviction5
NONPROFITLED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT : The Obama Presidential Cent5
HOW NONRESIDENTS DERAIL DEFENSIVE DEVELOPMENT : The Magnet School and Failed Wawa Gas Station in Coral Gables, Flor5
WE THE PLUG THO : Energy Democracy and the Politics of Social Reproduction in Atlanta5
CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐195
EDUCATION REFORM AND FINANCIALIZATION: Making the Fiscal Crisis of the Schools5
THE CONSTRUCTION STATE UNBOUND? Struggles over the Seoul Metropolitan Region’s Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization5
HERITAGIZING THE OTHER: Diversity, Heritage and Gentrification in Amsterdam Oost5
RACIAL INEQUITY IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND GENTRIFICATION: Challenging Compounded Environmental Racisms in the Green City5
FROM NY‐LON TO SILK ? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric5
PLACE LEADERSHIP AND BRANDINGDRIVEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA : A Political Economy Approach5
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MAN MUST CHOP!’: Agency of Potholes, Informal Road Menders and Socioeconomic Survival on a Sub‐Urban Road in Nigeria5
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THE CITIES WE CALL HOME: Indigeneity, Race andSettler‐ColonialUrbanisms5
PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa5
CAPITALIZING ON EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES: French Business Schools’ Offshore Campus Investment Strategies in London, Berlin and Barcelona5
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CITIES AND THEIR GURUS: The Role of Superstar Consultants in Post‐political Urban Governance4
FUTURE OF A DYING RIVER: Bureaucratic Practices and Negotiated Plans of the Yamuna Riverfront4
CONTESTED GOOD CITY STORIES FROM A NORTH CHENNAI LITTORAL4
HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW : Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today4
MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re‐signification and the Making of Governable Spaces4
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DIGITAL TECHNOSCIENTIFIC SOCIALITIES AS AN ENTANGLED COMMONS4
CAPITAL BATTLES , HABITUS AND SPACE : Urban Segregation in Bursa, Türkiye4
GRAY GOVERNANCE AT BORDER CHECKPOINTS: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino‐Kazakh Border4
EXPERIENCING URBAN SMELLS WHEN WALKING: Kastamonu City Case4
BEYOND THE TRIAGING OF NEGLECTED THINGS: Connecting Place and Participation Across an Urban System4
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PREFIGURATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE: Mobility, Citizenship, and the Agency of Objects4
HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang4
INSURGENT COPRODUCTION: Conflict, Cooperation and the Dialectics of Scale in Thailand's Baan Mankong Program4
THE CHAINMAKER : How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time4
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UN/DOING FUTURE, UNSETTLING TEMPORALIZATION3
THE HOUSING/FINANCIAL COMPLEX IN SPAIN: After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis3
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND DISSENT FOR POSTCOLONIAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS3
UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England3
SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA3
THE MISSING PEOPLE OF STATE‐SUBSIDIZED HOUSING: Lived Experiences of Non‐Occupancy and Secondary Residential Mobility3
THE POWER OF IMPENDING ZONING: Governance through Inaction in a Secondary City in Burkina Faso3
EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH : Implications and Counter‐measures3
PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐ PERIFERIA : Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood3
HOW DATA CENTERS HAVE COME TO MATTER: Governing the Spatial and Environmental Footprint of the ‘Digital Gateway to Europe’3
REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING : The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples3
AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology3
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THE PARTNERSHIP QUESTION AS A SCALE QUESTION: Extending the Theorization of Entrepreneurial Urbanism in China3
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BETWEEN DREAMS AND SURVIVAL: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Neoliberalism among Entrepreneurial Workers from São Paulo's Peripheries3
GOVERNING MIGRATION THROUGH SMALL TOWNS: Dispersal and the Production of Spaces of Transit3
MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction3
FROM HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE: English‐language Media Outlets and Urban Planning Best Practices in the Global South3
PLURALITY IN URBAN POLITICS: Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot3
BEYONDBAD DENSITYAND TERRITORIAL STIGMA : An Infrastructure A3
SPORTRELATED GENTRIFICATION : Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism3
IN THE SHADOW OF ‘THE CITY’ YET TO COME: Auroville, Developmentalism and the Social Effects of Cityness2
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THE COMMODIFICATION GAP AND THE CONTRADICTORY DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL MONOPOLY RENT: Insights from Kyoto, Japan2
TEMPORAL POLITICS AND INJUSTICE IN MEGA URBANIZATION: Lessons from Yangzhou, China2
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY : Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea2
ATHENS'S PHILANTHROCAPITALIST LANDSCAPE WITHIN THE CRISIS–AUSTERITY CONJUNCTURE2
POWER AND PREJUDICE: The Micropolitics of Electricity Access in Uganda's Urban Informal Settlements2
PLOTTING NEW MIDDLECLASS ASPIRATIONS : ‘Outlaw’ Builders of Market‐rate Affordable Homes in Chennai's Agrarian Urba2
INDIGENOUS URBANISM AS AN ANALYTIC: Towards Indigenous Urban Theory2
FARE MONEYSTORIES: Transportation and Everyday Practices in the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro2
RESCALING ABSENTEEISM : Mapping the Multi‐scalar and Relational Geographies of Absentee Housing Ownership in Atlanta2
THE STATE OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Waste Valorization in Hong Kong and Rotterdam2
THE CONTESTED CITY OF VENICE : Caring for Commodified Common Infrastructures in a Touristified Environment2
PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN LONELINESS : City Paths Toward (Un)common Lifeworlds2
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CENSUS UNDERCOUNTS, DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT, AND DATA JUSTICE: What Social Scientists and Data Users Need to Know About the 2020 US Census2
HOUSING BEYOND THE METROPOLIS: Inhabiting Extractivism and Extensions in Urban Amazonia1
THE LEGITIMACY TRAP : Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco1
BLOCOS URBANISM: Capitalism and Modularity in the Making of Contemporary Luanda1
SPOTLIGHTING MIGRANT AGENCY: How Migratory Movements and Temporariness Drive Peripheral Urbanization in Mumbai's Agrarian‐urban Edge1
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CITY OF REPAIR: Practicing the Future in Mexico City1
STRUGGLING FOR URBAN SPACE: Examining Social Distinctions between Long‐Term Residents and Newcomers in Warsaw's Districts1
URBAN PLANNING PARADOXES AND SOCIOSPATIAL FRAGMENTATION: The Superblock Barcelona Case (2016–2023)1
BOATS AS HOUSING IN OXFORD, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context1
EXPLAINING THE NATURE OF POLICY RESPONSES DURING THE PANDEMIC OUTBREAK: The Role of Geographical Characteristics1
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Formalization, Citizenship and the Challenges of Self‐Governance in Mumbai's Slum Relocation Colonies1
THEORY FROM EMPTY LAND: Informal Commoning Outside/Within Economies and Ecologies of the Urban1
FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS : Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olymp1
THE COSMOPOLITICS OF CATS AND WILDLIFE ON CAPE TOWN'S URBAN EDGE1
INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies1
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN : Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry1
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THE PRACTICE OF INFORMALITY: Hustling, Anticipating and Refusing in the Postindustrial City1
NEGOTIATING URBAN FORMALITIES : The Social Regulation of Construction in Douala, Cameroon1
URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco‐Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities1
SPATIALIZING WOMEN'S EVERYDAY ACCESS TO ENERGY: An Intra‐urban Comparison of the Gender Energy Nexus in Lahore, Pakistan1
THE INFLUENCE OF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS ON CITY GOVERNMENT INNOVATION1
AN URBAN MARKETPLACE UNDER PRESSURE : The Steady Gentrification Process of Porta Palazzo (Turin) Through the Eyes of Market Sellers and Policy Makers1
THE DENSITY DIALECTIC: Between Hard and Gentle Densification in London1
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ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OR PASSIVE WITNESS? Role of City Councils in the Creation and Scrutiny of Cities’ International Cooperation1
CROSSING THE LINE: Nationalist Gentrification and Settler Expansion in Israel's ‘Mixed Cities’1
THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility1
THE POWER OF UNCERTIFIED URBAN LAND1
THE CLIMATE REFUGE CITY: A New Urban Imaginary in Formation1
WHO COUNTS AS A “WHO”?’ Homeless Women and Geographies of Misrecognition in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden1
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GAMONALES WHO MAKE A CITY: Intimate Interactions in City Building1
STATELED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS : Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China1
FORCE AND ASPIRATION : Mobility and Class Formation on the Peripheries of Addis Ababa1
RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION IN GENTRIFYING URBAN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS: The Experience of Cultural Manufacturers in San Francisco and Melbourne1
FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS ? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City1
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INTEGRATING CLIMATE POLICY OBJECTIVES INTO MUNICIPAL LAND POLICIES: From conceptualization to empirical evidence from Finland1
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ON URBAN RE‐ARRANGEMENTS: A Suite in Five Movements1
CHINA ’S LAND FINANCE AS ACTIVE MODE OF LAND DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY : Reality, History and Prospects1
REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon1
INDIGENOUS URBANISMS1
URBAN REGENERATION IN SEOUL: Alternative Urbanism or the Resilience of Neoliberal Urbanism?1
MAKING MOTILITY : Sociospatial Mobility as Capital1
CLAIMING SPACE, LAND AND ECOLOGY: Mapping Geographies of Indigenous and Decolonial Urbanisms in Taipei1
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MOVEMENT 5. SENSING THE AFFECTIVE LIVES OF ARRANGEMENTS1
CARE INFRASTRUCTURES IN CHILE DURING THE PANDEMIC: Communitarian Weavings, Spaces and the Production of Common Goods1
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LIBERTOPIA : An Intellectual Stroll in Berlin's Tempelhof Park1
RIGHT TO THE CAMPSITE : How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue their Struggle for Inclusion1
TERRITORIALIZING POWER : The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar1
COMMON SENSE LAW : Making Right/s in the Liberal City1
BETWEENCHAIANDQIAN: How Unfinishedness and Ruination Have Reshaped Urbanity in China's ‘Coal Capital’ after the Construction Boom1
HOW LOCAL PRACTICES OF SOCIOPOLITICAL INNOVATION DEVELOP: And Why This Matters for Urban Transformations1
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NARRATIVES OF SMART URBANISM : And their Role in the Digitalization of Urban Services in Poland1
CITY OF NON‐EQUIVALENTS: Making, Maintaining and Disrupting Customary Attachments to Land in Port Vila, Vanuatu1
IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE TOURISTIC CITY: The Marketing of Hate in Verona1
CODA: The Racial Ecologies of Urban Wetlands1
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URBICIDAL ECONOMICS AND THE RACIAL GEOGRAPHIES OF TRIAGE1
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DID INDIA EVER HAVE A RIGHT TO THE CITY MOVEMENT? Rethinking Housing Justice in Violent Times1
URBANIZING VOLATILITY: On Recurrent Crises and the Economic Rhythms of Latin American Urbanization1
STARTUP PRECARITY : The Extractivist Economization of Precarious Urban Living in Naples1
ALGORITHMIC SUTURING: Platforms, Motorcycles and the ‘Last Mile’ in Urban Africa1
SURFACE TENSIONS : Roads, Potholes and the Embodied Politics of Driving in Urban India1
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