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How do wanghong (influencer) consumption practices reshape Chinese cities? This paper shows how digital platforms amplify new aesthetic tastes, driving urban change and exclusion — revealing cultural politics beyond gentrification. By: Liu Cao 曹流 📖 ijurr.org/article/the-po…

Density is central to what a city is and how it works. But how should we study its role in urban development? This paper proposes a ‘density dialectic’ to rethink urban change, grounded in research in London. By: Victoria Habermehl & Colin McFarlane 📖 tinyurl.com/729yuvts

How do differentiated local contexts influence young adults' (17-19 years old) trajectories and horizons of opportunity? Spatial processes of habitus formation among young adults in suburban Stockholm 📖 ijurr.org/article/spatia…

The field of fixing—a brokerage structure within Mumbai’s municipal corporation—challenges the idea of Southern cities as sites of planning failure. Not just deregulation or discretion, it makes the urban state visible to local populations. 📖 ijurr.org/article/expert…

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Justice at Work by Marc Doussard & Greg Schrock. 🔍 Reviewer Jessica Garrick (University of Denver) 📝 Read the full review: ijurr.org/book_review/ju… #UrbanStudies #IJURRReads #JusticeAtWork #CityPolitics #FridayReads

Does co-production through traditional governance build resilience? This paper examines peri-urban Oaxaca, where traditional governance enables co-production of essential services—yet struggles to drive deeper transformations for urban resilience. 📖 ijurr.org/article/tradit…

Peripheral urbanisation must be understood beyond spatial boundaries and through its ties to the gender-energy nexus. This study reveals inequalities in women’s energy access, shaped by core–periphery flows and intersectional identities. 📖 ijurr.org/article/spatia…

Can community benefits agreements work in legacy cities? New research by @lisaberglundphd & Jodi Miles from DalArchPlan explores how Detroiters have organized for accountable development through CBAs—despite disinvestment and market challenges. 📖 ijurr.org/article/detroi…

Can South Korea's newly launched participatory urban governance bring out community empowerment and local democracy? What does the transformation of urban governance mean to the state-civil society relation in South Korea? 📖 ijurr.org/article/new-ur…

What does it mean to research state spaces in the digital age? In this collaborative piece, Mariana Reyes, Fenna Imara, Neha Gupta, D. Mbugua, and Jesus Flores explore the methodological challenges of studying state bureaucracies in the global South. 📖 tinyurl.com/bdze2ka2

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉 This week’s review spotlights Urban Power by Benjamin H. Bradlow. 🔍 Reviewer Ivan Souza Viera (National Autonomous University of Mexico) 📝 Read the full review: ijurr.org/book_review/ur… #UrbanStudies #IJURRReads #FridayReads

📢 Available in Early View: ‘Darkening’ Informalized Workers: Moral Geographies and the In/Visibilization of Transnational Migrants in Spain By Begoña Aramayona 👉 ijurr.org/article/darken…

📢 Also available in Early View: The Cosmopolitics of Cats and Wildlife on Cape Town’s Urban Edge By Nicoli Nattrass, Zoë Woodgate, Benjamin Wittenberg, and M. Justin O'Riain 👉 ijurr.org/article/the-co…

📢 Available in Early View: Care Infrastructures in Chile During the Pandemic: Communitarian Weavings, Spaces and the Production of Common Goods By Francisco Letelier Troncoso, Clara Irazábal, Javiera Cubillos Almendra, Miguel Sepúlveda Salazar 👉 ijurr.org/article/care-i…

📢 Available in Early View: Class, Climate and Cities: Why Is ‘Sustainability’ Most Popular at an Urban Scale? By Ståle Holgersen 👉 ijurr.org/article/class-…

📢 Now available in Early View: Active Participant or Passive Witness? The Role of City Councils in the Creation and Scrutiny of Cities’ International Cooperation By Robert Gawłowski, Agnieszka Szpak, Joanna Modrzyńska, Paweł Modrzyński, Michał Dahl 👉 ijurr.org/article/active…

📢 Available in Early View: Monitoring Urban Displacement: A New Methodology for Tracking Informal Settlement Eviction By Matthijs van Oostrum 👉 ijurr.org/article/monito…

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR 🎉 This week’s review spotlights Fictions of Financialization by Nick Bernards. 🔍 Reviewer Cole Webber (York University) 📝 Read the full review: ijurr.org/book_review/fi…

📢 Available in Early View: Uplifting Urban Development Through Revitalization (Panhuo): ‘Living’ Legacy of Socialist Housing in China’s Sustainability Transition By Yunjing Li and George C.S. Lin 👉 ijurr.org/article/uplift…

📢 Available in Early View: Peri-Urban Extractivism: The Political Economy of ‘Cheap Sprawl’ By Aurélie Delage and Max Rousseau 👉 ijurr.org/article/peri-u…