International Journal of Urban and Regional Research最新文献

Reflections on Critical Urban Studies in Perilous Times 危机时代对批判性城市研究的反思

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13357

MONA FAWAZ, EDUARDO MARQUES, NIK THEODORE, LIZA WEINSTEIN

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Spatial Processes of Habitus Formation Among Young Adults in Suburban Stockholm 斯德哥尔摩郊区年轻人习惯形成的空间过程

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-04-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13320

Sara Forsberg, Bo Malmberg, Eva Andersson

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INFRASTRUCTURE AS TERRITORIAL STIGMA: Labour Migrant Exclusions in the Indian City 基础设施作为领土的耻辱：印度城市的劳工移民排斥

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-04-13 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13313

Nabeela Ahmed

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New Urban Governance and the Dilemma of Participatory Planning in South Korea 韩国新型城市治理与参与式规划困境

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13310

Se Hoon Park

{"title":"New Urban Governance and the Dilemma of Participatory Planning in South Korea","authors":"Se Hoon Park","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13310","url":null,"abstract":"The national urban regeneration policy in South Korea, launched in 2013, has been hailed as a milestone in the history of the country's urban planning as it has introduced extensive measures for strengthening citizen participation in the planning process. By drawing on the perspective of post-politics and agonistic planning theorists, this article examines how citizen participation in the new urban governance has been practiced and orchestrated by a diverse array of players, including government officials, intermediary organizations, and civil society actors. The empirical analysis demonstrates that, first, the participatory planning system is controlled by the government and arranged to produce consensus while avoiding any dissensus, and second, intermediate organizations/actors are invited/trained to guide citizens to the government-defined participation practices. Therefore, the current form of participatory governance in South Korea can be seen as a form of post-politics where the political is ruled out and controlled through de-politicization measures. Building on these findings, this article discusses how the current integration of the state and civil society creates the unique dilemma of participation, and how the Korean experience can enrich the global debate on post-politics.","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 3","pages":"708-723"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074722","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}

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POST-SOCIALIST GENTRIFICATIONS: Similar, but Different 后社会主义士绅化：相似，但又不同

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13321

Matthias Bernt, Agnieszka Ogrododwczyk

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DETROIT’S FIGHTS FOR COMMUNITY BENEFITS: Exploring the Challenges and Strategies of Securing Community Benefits Agreements in a Legacy City 底特律为社区利益而战：探索在传统城市中确保社区利益协议的挑战和策略

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13312

Lisa Berglund, Jodi Miles

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THE POLITICS OF WANGHONG CONSUMPTION: (Re)Making the Place through New Urban Aestheticisation 王红消费的政治：（再）通过新城市审美化创造场所

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13315

Liu Cao

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PLANNING A EUROPEAN RACIAL CITY: Dealing (with) Dread in Twenty-first-century Berlin 规划一个欧洲种族城市：处理21世纪柏林的恐惧

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13297

Giovanni Picker

{"title":"PLANNING A EUROPEAN RACIAL CITY: Dealing (with) Dread in Twenty-first-century Berlin","authors":"Giovanni Picker","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13297","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I examine a participatory planning initiative in contemporary Berlin to propose a theoretical reflection on the entanglements between race and urban futures in the German capital. The promoters of the planning initiative aimed to solve the problem of drug dealing in an inner-city park. Motivated by no economic interests or concerns, they framed the problem they aimed to solve as the long-time residents’ dread of the figure of ‘the dealer’. The initiative ultimately gained broad consensus among residents, civil society and state institutions alike within an ‘affective economy’, which I call a ‘dread economy’. Such an ‘economy’, as I show, functioned as a cover-up device for race to remain the unspoken rationale of the initiative. Against the backdrop of Berlin's liberal and progressive (self-)image, I phenomenologically interrogate the conditions under which racial conceptions could be the rationale of a popular planning initiative. I argue that the ‘dread economy’ went unnoticed—and was therefore effective—because it was predicated on a counterintuitive combination of cultural tropes belonging to two seemingly unrelated forms of racism—anti-Black racism and anti-Jewish racism. I then extend my argument by analysing three cases of twenty-first-century Berlin planning, in which various racial conceptions quietly shaped citywide planning visions. In my conclusion, I call for further critical analysis of relational articulations of race in shaping European urban futures, and for comparative research with settler-colonial and postcolonial urban regions where different (combinations of) racial conceptions may structure dominant visions of the future.","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 2","pages":"358-375"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-2427.13297","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646157","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}

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EXPERT FIXERS: Bureaucratic Informality, Brokerage and the Politics of Land in Mumbai 专家调停：孟买的官僚非正式、经纪和土地政治

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13323

Sangeeta Banerji

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EVERYDAY INFRASTRUCTURES OF URBAN LIFE 城市生活的日常基础设施

IF 2.7 2区经济学

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13324

Prince K. Guma

{"title":"EVERYDAY INFRASTRUCTURES OF URBAN LIFE","authors":"Prince K. Guma","doi":"10.1111/1468-2427.13324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13324","url":null,"abstract":"Infrastructure is commonly perceived through the interpretive monopoly of hegemonic frames of modernity, leading to the frequent oversight of everyday infrastructures. Extensive capital-intensive infrastructures that are fully integrated and have paled into the background of everyday life are commonly dismissed, criticized, or misconstrued as deteriorating, incongruous, and in need of repair and reinforcement to ‘measure up’. Similarly, ordinary and hybrid techno-popular infrastructures are frequently demeaned as alternative, informal, secondary, less modern and not belonging. In an era where preference and priority are given to shiny new things and innovations, everyday infrastructures are seldom acknowledged as substantive modes of operation in their own right. This article advocates a shift in perspective. Drawing illustrative cases from eastern Africa, I examine everyday infrastructures as critical sites of reference for analyzing, theorizing, and organizing the urban. Rather than starting from a preconceived notion of modernity, I examine everyday infrastructures on their own terms. I propose a series of registers—incomplete relationalities, mundane temporalities and heterogeneous modernities—to stimulate a reappraisal of how we view, read and think about infrastructure. Accordingly, I reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure, advocating for a decentered and heterodox perspective that emphasizes infrastructural plurality, multiplicity and inherent incompleteness.","PeriodicalId":14327,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Urban and Regional Research","volume":"49 3","pages":"479-497"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074590","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}

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