Volume 43 Issue 6 November 2019

In This Issue...

The articles in the November issue of IJURR cohere around a central theme: the performative aspects of and performances involved in place-making in cities. We have rich case studies on the cultural politics of the attempts to achieve ‘global city’ status through city promotion and marketing, on the intertwinement of urban land markets and art markets, and on the governing of street art, graffiti and street performances of living statues. We have detailed examinations of what is at issue in the public spaces of cities; how they are defined and contested, and what kinds of tensions surface in the struggle over urban public spaces, from race and class to political and religious orientations. These articles provide insight into urban sociality, lessons that can be learned from defining and redefining publics, governing public performances, and performing collective bodily enactments. As usual, the articles in this issue cover a wide range of geographies, including Dubai, Beijing, Singapore, Barcelona, Washington, DC, Sivas, London, Amman and Jakarta. Public gestures, they demonstrate, do not simply address or respond to pregiven publics; they define them.

— Mustafa Dikeç

Book Reviews

Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh and Bart Wissink (eds.) 2017: Cities and the Super‐Rich: Real Estate, Elite Practices, and Urban Political Economies. New York: Palgrave

Chris Hamnett

Published online on Oct 31st, 2019 | DOI: /10.1111/1468-2427.12861 (p 1209-1212)

Koenraad Bogaert 2018: Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press

Mona Fawaz

Published online on Oct 31st, 2019 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12865 (p 1215-1217)

Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini (eds.) 2019: The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress. New York: New York University Press

Andrew E.G. Jonas

Published online on Oct 31st, 2019 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12866 (p 1217-1218)

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Volume 43 Issue 6 November 2019

In This Issue...

Articles

‘I am Burj Khalifa’: Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Toponymic Commodification and the Worlding of Dubai

Placing Arts Districts within Markets: A Case Study of 798 Arts District in Beijing

Writing on the Wall: Street Art in Graffiti‐free Singapore

Street Performance, Public Space, and the Boundaries of Urban Desirability: The Case of Living Statues in Barcelona

Fear and Loathing (of others): Race, Class and Contestation of Space in Washington, DC

Making Violence Public: Spatializing (Counter)publicness through the 1993 Sivas Arson Attack, Turkey

Reassembling Lesseps Square, Rethinking Barcelona: A More‐than‐Human Approach

Publics and their Problems: Notes on the Remaking of the South Bank, London

Playing with the Rules of the Game: Social Innovation for Urban Transformation

Muslim Hoedowns, Tenuous Language and the Uncertain Lives of an Urban Majority

Book Reviews

Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh and Bart Wissink (eds.) 2017: Cities and the Super‐Rich: Real Estate, Elite Practices, and Urban Political Economies. New York: Palgrave

John Harrison and Michael Hoyler (eds.) 2018: Doing Global Urban Research. Los Angeles: SAGE

Ross Exo Adams 2019: Circulation and Urbanization. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi and Singapore: Sage

AbdouMaliq Simone 2019: Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South. Cambridge: Polity Press

Koenraad Bogaert 2018: Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press

Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini (eds.) 2019: The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress. New York: New York University Press

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