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📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Au-delà de Dubaï by Roman Stadnicki 🔍 Reviewer Florian Bonnefoi (University Paris Cité) 📝 Read the full review: ijurr.org/book_review/au-del…

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Urban Indigenous Assemblages by Ana Vivaldi 🔍 Reviewer Coline Chevrin (City University of New York) 📝 Read the full review: ijurr.org/book_review/urban-…

Why do NIMBY movements erupt against refugee camps in Greece? A look at how top-down migration governance and media coverage shape the production of space. By Alexandra Makridou, Ioannis Frangopoulos & Nikos Kapitsinis 📖 ijurr.org/article/https-onli…

Chinese universities are property developers too. Two aging campuses in Nanjing rebranded themselves as “innovation complexes” — with very different outcomes. By Hao Chen & Yunpeng Zhang 📖 ijurr.org/article/chinese-un…

From mining town to Olympic host: how Chongli, China turned a mountain into a “territorial business model” for the 2022 Winter Games, blending tourism, housing and green finance. By Thierry Theurillat & Mengke Zhang 📖 tinyurl.com/5apwusd3

In Bar Elias, Lebanon, residents picked up cameras to tell the story of the pollution making their town sick. A study on participatory film, slow violence and the agrarian-urban frontier. By Hannah Sender, Hanna Baumann & Joana Dabaj ijurr.org/article/representi…

What does it mean to “close the carbon loop”? This article examines Toronto’s waste-to-biofuel program, exploring how waste, energy systems, emissions accounting, and climate policy intersect in the pursuit of net zero. By Taylor Davey 📖 ijurr.org/article/closing-th…

Read now in The Urban Now: Unmaking the Footpath: Ontological Violence and Urban Sanitization in Delhi By @vishavjeetdhand 🌃 ijurr.org/the-urban-now/unma…

What happens when venture capital tries to reinvent housing? This article traces the rapid expansion of co-living real estate start-ups, revealing how the pursuit of scale reshapes housing markets—and shifts the costs onto tenants. By Tim White 📖 ijurr.org/article/hyperscali…

Who keeps urban climate policies moving when projects end? Drawing on cases from Mexico and India, this article examines the intermediaries who build continuity over time. By Hanna Hilbrandt, Erandi Barroso Olmedo & Fritz-Julius Grafe 📖 ijurr.org/article/the-chainm…

📢 Explore the new July issue — now available online! 👉 ijurr.org/issue/vol-51-numbe…

📍 RC21 Vienna is here! We've launched a new IJURR Virtual Issue: Vienna at the Crossroads. Read it here👇 ijurr.org/virtual-issues/vie… #rc21vienna2026 #rc21 @ISA_RC21 @univienna @IfSWien

📢 Now in Early View Security Zones as ‘New Cities’: Public-Private Partnership and the Transformation of Land Use in Accra, Ghana By Isaac K. Arthur, Robert Lawrence Afutu-Kotey & Irene Appeaning Addo 👉 ijurr.org/article/security-z…

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights The Right to Be Counted by Sanjeev Routray. 🔍 Reviewer Sara Shneiderman (University of British Columbia) 📝 Read the full review: ijurr.org/book_review/the-ri…

📢 Now in Early View The Chainmaker: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives Over Time By Hanna Hilbrandt, Erandi Barroso Olmedo & Fritz-Julius Grafe 👉 ijurr.org/article/the-chainm…

From overcrowded tenements to rising rental burdens, this article maps the changing geography of housing inequality across European cities over more than a century. By Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller, Ria Wilken 📖 ijurr.org/article/housing-qu…

Can cities move beyond growth-centric thinking? This article examines how decision-makers in the Netherlands and Finland came to accept urban shrinkage as a long-term condition and rethink policy responses. By Marjan Marjanović, Johanna Lilius 📖 ijurr.org/article/what-does-…

What happens when rental housing becomes an asset? This article examines how institutional investors transformed Sweden’s rental market and how rising interest rates have intensified conflicts over housing. By Jennie Gustafsson 📖 ijurr.org/article/maintainin…

Local expertise matters. This article examines how social movements in Argentina worked with the state to recognize informal settlements and shape a national urban upgrading policy. By Alejandra Cueto 📖 ijurr.org/article/knowing-li…