Abstracts

Abstracts

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00482.x (p 771-780)

Articles

Local discourse and global competition: production experiences in family workshops of the Brianza

Simone Ghezzi

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00483.x (p 781-792)

Questioning the use of ‘local democracy’ as a discursive strategy for political mobilization in Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto

Julie‐Anne Boudreau

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00484.x (p 793-810)

Public policies, political cleavages and urban space: state infrastructure policies in São Paulo, Brazil, 1975–2000

Eduardo Cesar Marques, Renata Mirandola Bichir

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00485.x (p 811-827)

Masculine identities and low‐paid work: young men in urban labour markets

Linda McDowell

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00486.x (p 828-848)

Finding oneself, losing oneself: the lesbian and gay ‘scene’ as a paradoxical space

Gill Valentine, Tracey Skelton

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00487.x (p 849-866)

Fighting for the global catwalk: formalizing public life in Castlefield (Manchester) and diluting public life in el Raval (Barcelona)

Monica Degen

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00488.x (p 867-880)

Forging a ‘new’ organizational infrastructure for Los Angeles’ progressive community

Walter Julio Nicholls

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00489.x (p 881-896)

Housing differences in the late Soviet city: the case of Tartu, Estonia

Hill Kulu

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00490.x (p 897-911)

Self‐help in housing and chengzhongcun in China’s urbanization

L. Zhang, Simon X. B. Zhao, J. P. Tian

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00491.x (p 912-937)

Interventions

The right to the city

David Harvey

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00492.x (p 939-941)

Glocalizing protest: urban conflicts and the global social movements

Bettina Köhler, Markus Wissen

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00493.x (p 942-951)

An alternative urban world is possible: a declaration for urban research and action

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00494.x (p 952-955)

Review Essays

On the corner of diverse/reverse globalization: the third stage of global ‘urban studies’

Takashi Machimura

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00495.x (p 957-959)

Global times and emerging socio‐spatial shapes

Anssi Paasi

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00496.x (p 960-963)

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00497.x (p 965-979)

Referees

IJURR Referees 2003

Published online on Dec 17th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00498.x (p 980-980)