{"title":"MAKING MOTILITY: Sociospatial Mobility as Capital","authors":"Niall Cunningham","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13355","url":null,"abstract":"<p>‘Motility’ has become a highly influential concept in global mobility and migration studies in the two decades since it emerged in this journal. The call to centralize sociospatial mobility as a form of individual capital gave motility a particular and enduring significance in the wider mobilities turn. Yet efforts to operationalize motility at scale through a quantitative approach remain elusive. In this article I employ a Bourdieusian methodology and nationally representative data from a pan-European project on transnational mobility to address this knowledge gap. Mobility capital is strongly allied to pre-existing structural inequalities within and across generations. However, it can also be seen to operate as an extension of other cultural variants of capital, but one that is still mediated by the nation-state, regardless of background or class trajectory. These findings underscore the urgent need to broaden understandings of ‘soft assets’ such as transnational mobility to spotlight its capacity to generate insidious and novel forms of capital and its potential, therefore, to leverage other forms of advantage in an ostensibly more meritocratic world. Concomitantly, they also underline the increasing relevance and value of motility as an explanatory framework in approaching contemporary global inequalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 5","pages":"1082-1108"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-2427.13355","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CONTACT ZONES OF CLIMATE PRECONSTRUCTION IN COASTAL AFRICA","authors":"Jon Schubert","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13353","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges and realities of climate change adaptation in African coastal cities and beyond. By centring African expertise and actors while accounting for global embeddedness and historically sedimented inequalities, we can come to a more agentive, processual and just understanding of adapting cities to the climate crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 5","pages":"1263-1275"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145102105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENTRIFICATION–RESISTANCE NEXUS: A Comparative Case Study","authors":"Marijn Knieriem","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13352","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article studies resistance to gentrification from a recognition theory perspective. It discusses two cases of gentrification: in the Tweebosbuurt in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and in the Quartier Maritime in Molenbeek, Belgium. Resistance to gentrification assumed different forms in these neighbourhoods. Based on a comparative case study and in order to better understand these different forms of resistance, this article identifies 15 dimensions that mediate the gentrification–resistance nexus. This list of 15 dimensions can serve as a heuristic device for the future study of the gentrification–resistance nexus in other contexts. In focusing on the types of gentrification, this article also makes a programmatic point, namely that research on the gentrification–resistance nexus should consider systematically how this relationship is mediated by the particularities of processes of gentrification.</p>","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 5","pages":"1164-1185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-2427.13352","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145101871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SPORT-RELATED GENTRIFICATION: Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism","authors":"Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Jordan Koch","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13348","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Urban studies scholars and sociologists of sport have critically examined the production and consumption of world-class sports spectacles that are constitutive elements of urban growth agendas and broader accumulation processes by dispossession. This multi-year community-based research project goes behind the spectacle, exploring the uneven impacts of Rogers Place, a $613.7 million (CAD), publicly financed hockey arena and its associated entertainment district on city-centre communities in Edmonton, Alberta—an area with a sizeable Indigenous urban street community. In doing so, we bring together critical sport and urban geography scholarship and work by Indigenous Studies scholars who have examined how Indigenous peoples in Western Canadian Prairie cities navigate the white possessive logics of settler colonial urbanism and the state-sponsored gentrification of their communities and land. Our analysis challenges common-sense ideas about the community-wide benefits of sport-related gentrification and pervasive beliefs that settler colonialism is an event of the past that occurred entirely outside of cities. We also highlight the aspirations of city-centre residents to continue living in their shared urban homespaces and to collectively envision other futures that are neither based on the violent practices of sport-driven gentrification nor its associated forms of genocidal inclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 5","pages":"1146-1163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-2427.13348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145101870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on Critical Urban Studies in Perilous Times","authors":"MONA FAWAZ, EDUARDO MARQUES, NIK THEODORE, LIZA WEINSTEIN","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 3","pages":"473-478"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PERI-URBAN EXTRACTIVISM: The Political Economy of ‘Cheap Sprawl’","authors":"Aurélie Delage, Max Rousseau","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13334","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores peri-urbanization through the lens of extractivism from a critical political-economic perspective. Our analytical framework sheds new light on peri-urbanization. We examine the uneven nature of the process, unpack its <i>growth engine</i> and highlight its shortcomings. By shifting the focus from the demand to the supply of peri-urban housing, our approach overcomes the limitations of a traditional analysis based on land rent. Peri-urbanization is thus considered in the light of resource exploitation (namely land), by a coalition of public and private stakeholders, whose methods include accumulation by dispossession. Land and modest homebuyers are the resources exploited by the coalition to extract solid value. Simultaneously, sprawl is the engine that provides a continuous supply of cheap land to sustain the process. However, when this coalition captures value from the urbanization of agricultural land (and the creditworthiness of precarious homebuyers), the resulting irreparable soil artificialization impedes future redevelopments. By drawing on two case studies of this type of ‘cheap sprawl’ and by bridging the traditional North–South divide, this article provides empirical evidence to show that peri-urban extractivism is just that: a predatory system. Not only does it keep peripheral areas in a state of ‘nondevelopment’, it also takes a serious toll on the environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 5","pages":"1040-1062"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145101256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UPLIFTING URBAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH REVITALIZATION (PANHUO): ‘Living’ Legacy of Socialist Housing in China's Sustainability Transition","authors":"Yunjing Li, George C.S. Lin","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13347","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The theorization of urban sustainability transition is built upon some taken-for-granted analytical coordinates between old vis-à-vis new, past and future, and legacy against innovation. This research identifies an intriguing practice of ‘<i>panhuo</i>’ (盘活 or revitalization) in China's ongoing urban regeneration that involves strategic agents’ leveraging socialist legacy elements to retrofit housing infrastructure. To analyze the temporal non-linearity within the transition process, we introduce an alternative conceptual framework of ‘living’ legacy to reveal the dialectical and mutually constitutive relationship between the past, the present and the future. Focused on the northeastern city of Shenyang—a leading industrial hub in the socialist era—and its recent practice of retrospective elevator installation in pre-2000 residential buildings, this article illustrates how legacy elements of socialist state work-unit housing are resuscitated by both policymakers and urban residents to facilitate the installation exercise, and how this legacy-based approach leads to uneven results mirroring the social hierarchies under the socialist regime. The findings of this research call for a reconsideration of the dynamics of infrastructure retrofit to go beyond the conventional linear conception of time and the techno-futurist notion of innovation. The study also highlights the significance of local historical contexts in shaping the pathways as well as the (un)just outcomes of urban sustainability transition.</p>","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 5","pages":"1208-1229"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-2427.13347","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MONITORING URBAN DISPLACEMENT: A New Methodology for Tracking Informal Settlement Eviction","authors":"Matthijs van Oostrum","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13354","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The informal settlement of land is the predominant mode of urban development in the global South, yet residents continue to face forced eviction, which threatens their lives and livelihoods. Monitoring the demolition of informal settlement has been a thorny problem, with on-the-ground monitoring being resource intensive and often intermittent. This is an initial report on the use of a new methodology using interpretative mapping of satellite imagery to document trends in the eviction rate of cities in the global South. This intervention examines current approaches to monitoring urban displacement and discusses the methodological opportunities and challenges of a complementary approach combining satellite imagery with on-the-ground enumerations. Through preliminary use of this methodology on a sample of 30 cities in the global South, it is found that over the past two decades, evictions increased in the period 2003–10, after which eviction initially decreased, but subsequently levelled off past 2015.</p>","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 5","pages":"1239-1250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert Gawłowski, Agnieszka Szpak, Joanna Modrzyńska, Paweł Modrzyński, Michał Dahl
{"title":"ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OR PASSIVE WITNESS? Role of City Councils in the Creation and Scrutiny of Cities’ International Cooperation","authors":"Robert Gawłowski, Agnieszka Szpak, Joanna Modrzyńska, Paweł Modrzyński, Michał Dahl","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13349","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The growing role of cities in international relations and their impact on nation-states have been unprecedented in recent decades. What has yet to be revealed is the part that city councils play in this process. In this essay we examine whether city councils are active participants or are dominated by mayors and classify the tools they have at their disposal to exert influence in cities’ international cooperation. Our research methods include desk research of strategy documents and multiple case studies. We obtained our information primarily from the respective city councils and via interviews with the international affairs officers of these cities. Our conclusion is that the role of city councils in creating and scrutinizing international cooperation is relatively narrow and that the activities of cities as a whole are determined mainly by their mayors’ leadership and perceptions of international cooperation.</p>","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 5","pages":"1251-1262"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145102218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES: Why is ‘Sustainability’ Most Popular at an Urban Scale?","authors":"Ståle Holgersen","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13326","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Class is crucial for understanding why sustainability has become so much more popular at the urban than at other scales. The urban scale is where the capitalist class can most easily colour their investments ‘green’ without confronting the overall power of fossil capital. Urban sustainability has therefore become the limited answer to a question that should really be posed at other geographical scales. In this article I analyse the intersections between class and geographical scale to examine and criticize the class character of the sustainable city. I use a stratification approach to identify the irony of people with high carbon footprints tending to live in the ‘greenest’ cities or city districts. This is class <i>in</i> the sustainable city. A Marxist understanding—not least one emphasizing the capitalist class <i>as a class</i>—can help us grasp the class character <i>of</i> urban sustainability. This latter approach helps us identify how class <i>produces</i> urban sustainability.</p>","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 4","pages":"741-756"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-2427.13326","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}