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Toronto's gentrification fights are written on its signs. From development notices to developer placards and grassroots posters: how signage contests, depoliticizes and resists change.
By Lindi Jahiu, Jonathan Cinnamon & Agnieszka Leszczynski
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How do you study a global infrastructure project as it unsettles places? Following the Northern Corridor in eastern Uganda — a railway and a Sino-Ugandan industrial park — through the lens of unsettlement.
By Jonathan Silver & Sydney Nsubuga
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Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial reimagines Istanbul's heritage through a Turkish-Islamic nationalist lens. A study of the Yeditepe Biennial and Muslim creative geographies.
By Hulya Arik & Sabrien Amrov
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Can a climate plan survive Mumbai's political turbulence? Ethnographic research shows how WRI staff brokered between C40 and city hall, layering global norms onto local governance.
By Ike Uri
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The latest issue of IJURR is out! Explore Volume 50, Number 5
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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)
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📚 Friday Reads from IJURR
This week’s review spotlights Urban Indigenous Assemblages by Ana Vivaldi
🔍 Reviewer Coline Chevrin (City University of New York)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Read now in The Urban Now: Unmaking the Footpath: Ontological Violence and Urban Sanitization in Delhi
By @vishavjeetdhand
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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
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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
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📢 Explore the new July issue — now available online!
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📍 RC21 Vienna is here!
We've launched a new IJURR Virtual Issue: Vienna at the Crossroads.
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📢 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
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📚 Friday Reads from IJURR
This week’s review spotlights The Right to Be Counted by Sanjeev Routray.
🔍 Reviewer Sara Shneiderman (University of British Columbia)
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