Articles

Through the Optics of Finance: Speculative Urbanism and the Transformation of Markets

Michael Goldman & Devika Narayan

Published online on Mar 15th, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13012 (p 209-231)

The Extended Local State Under Financialized Capitalism: Institutional Bricolage and the Use of Intermunicipal Companies to Manage Financial Pressure

Laura Deruytter & David Bassens

Published online on Feb 18th, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12987 (p 232-248)

Contradictions of Financial Capital Switching: Reading the Corporate Leverage Crisis through The Port of Liverpool’s Whole Business Securitization

Callum Ward

Published online on Feb 27th, 2020 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12878 (p 249-265)

Governance of Waterfront Regeneration Projects: Experiences from Two Second‐tier Cities in Sweden

Brita Hermelin & Robert Jonsson

Published online on Nov 17th, 2020 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12966 (p 266-281)

Financialized Gentrification and Class Composition in the Post‐Industrial City: A Rent Strike Against a Real Estate Investment Trust in Hamilton, Ontario

Bjarke Skærlund Risager

Published online on Feb 16th, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12991 (p 282-302)

Extracting Value, London Style: Revisiting the Role of the State in Urban Development

Jennifer Robinson & Katia Attuyer

Published online on Dec 8th, 2020 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12962 (p 303-331)

The Making of Post‐Post‐Soviet Ruins: Infrastructure Development and Disintegration in Contemporary Russia

Mia M. Bennett

Published online on May 12th, 2020 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12908 (p 332-347)

Interventions

Ruination and Rejuvenation: Rethinking Growth and Decline through an Inverted Telescope

Martin J. Murray

Published online on Mar 15th, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13013 (p 348-362)

Taking City Rankings Seriously: Engaging with Benchmarking Practices in Global Urbanism

Michele Acuto, Daniel Pejic & Jessie Briggs

Published online on Feb 25th, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12974 (p 363-377)

City Benchmarking, Globalized Urban Scholarship and the View From Above: Reflections on a Few Absences

Enora Robin

Published online on Feb 25th, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12976 (p 378-380)

Wayfinding in the Long Shadow of City Benchmarking: Or How to Manufacture (an Economy of) Comparability in the Global Urban

Rachel Bok

Published online on Feb 25th, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12977 (p 381-384)

For or Against ‘The Business of Benchmarking’?

James Merricks White & Rob Kitchin

Published online on Feb 25th, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12978 (p 385-388)

Whose City Benchmarks? The Role of the Critical Urbanist in Comparative Urban Measuring

Michele Acuto, Daniel Pejic & Jessie Briggs

Published online on Feb 25th, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12979 (p 389-392)

Book Reviews

Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck and Eric Sheppard (eds.) 2020: Urban Studies Inside/Out: Theory, Method, Practice. London: Sage

Özlem Çelik, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, Defne Kadıoğlu & Lorena Melgaço

Published online on Mar 2nd, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13004 (p 393-394)

Eleonora Pasotti 2020: Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities. New York: Cambridge University Press

Catharina Thörn

Published online on Mar 2nd, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13005 (p 395-396)

Dominika V. Polanska 2019: Contentious Politics and the Welfare State: Squatting in Sweden. Abingdon: Routledge

Miguel A. Martínez

Published online on Mar 2nd, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13006 (p 396-398)

Nicholas D’Avella 2019: Concrete Dreams: Practice, Value and Built Environments in Post‐crisis Buenos Aires. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press

Cecilia Dinardi

Published online on Mar 2nd, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13007 (p 398-400)

Matthew Hayes 2018: Gringolandia: Lifestyle Migration under Late Capitalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Eve Bantman

Published online on Mar 2nd, 2021 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13008 (p 400-401)