A groundbreaking forum for intellectual debate, IJURR is at the forefront of urban and regional research. With a cutting edge approach to linking theoretical development and empirical research, and a consistent demand for quality, IJURR encompasses key material from an unparalleled range of critical, comparative and geographic perspectives. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach to the field, IJURR is essential reading for social scientists with a concern for the complex, changing roles and futures of cities and regions.

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'Urban Ecological Security': A New Urban Paradigm?
Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin

Mega-projects in New York, London and Amsterdam
Susan S. Fainstein

The Urban Question Revisited: The Importance of Cities for Social Movements
Walter J. Nicholls

Aboriginal Cosmopolitanism
Nigel Clark

Carceral Chicago: Making the Ex-offender Employability Crisis
Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore

Technologies of Government: Constituting Subjectivities, Spaces, and Infrastructures in Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta
Michelle Kooy and Karen Bakker

Mumbai's Development Mafias: Globalization, Organized Crime and Land Development
Liza Weinstein

Uneven Development, Inter-scalar Tensions, and the Politics of Decentralization in South Korea
Bae-Gyoon Park

The Market as the New Emperor
Anna Haila

A selection of groundbreaking articles from IJURR are currently available free online. Click on the article titles below to read them.

Cities and the 'War on Terror'
Stephen Graham

Message in a Metro: Building Urban Rail Infrastructure and Image in Delhi, India
Matti Siemiatycki

Global City Frontiers: Singapore's Hinterland and the Contested Socio-political Geographies of Bintan, Indonesia
Tim Bunnell, Hamzah Muzaini and James D. Sidaway

The Post-Socialist Growth Machine: The Case of Hungary
Laszlo J Kulcsar, Tamas Domokos

Urban Capitalisms: European Models in Competition
Dominique Lorrain

Struggling with the Creative Class
Jamie Peck

Reinventing Multiculturalism: Urban Citizenship and the Negotiation of Ethnic Diversity in Amsterdam
Justus Uitermark, Ugo Rossi, Henk Van Houtum

Are Social Forums the Future of Social Movements?
Peter Marcuse

'So Long as I Take my Mobile': Mobile Phones, Urban Life and Geographies of Young People's Safety
Rachel Pain, Sue Grundy, Sally Gill, Elizabeth Towner, Geoff Sparks, Kate Hughes

Cyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the Contemporary City
Matthew Gandy

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