The IJURR Symposium section presented edited collections of articles around a specific theme. With the aim of bringing fresh perspectives and insights to urban and regional debates, symposia were comprised of articles that sought an in-depth and comparative exploration of an important urban theme or concept. All the symposia published in IJURR can be found below.
All Symposia
Cities and theories
- Creative Cities (Vol 43.3)
- Critical Urban Theory in the ‘Urban Age’ (Vol 45.4)
- Engineering Cities (Vol 42.2)
- Planning Histories and Practices of Circulating Urban Knowledge (Vol 37:5)
- Theorizing the Politicizing City (Vol 41.1)
Urban Marginality, Citizenship, and Class
- Local Governance and Participation under Neoliberalism: Comparative Perspectives (Vol 34:1)
- Participation in Urban Contention and Deliberation (Vol 34:3)
- Urban Citizenship and Right to the City (Vol 39.4)
- Urban Terror (Vol 27:3)
Cities and regions
- Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local (Vol 38:1)
- Globalization and Cities in Comparative Perspective (Vol 29:1)
- Local Politics and the Circulation of Community Security Initiatives in Johannesburg (Vol 36:5)
- Recentering Southeast Asian Cities (Vol 37:3)
- Spaces of Modernity: Religion and the Urban in Asia and Africa (Vol 32:3)
- Spatial Spillovers Revisited (Vol 41.6)
- State Rescaling in Non‐Western Contexts (Vol 37:4)
- Urban shrinkage in Germany and the USA: A Comparison of Transformation Patterns and Local Strategies (Vol 36:2)
Politics, movements, and culture
- Deliberative Democracy and Local Governance: Towards a New Agenda (Vol 30:3)
- Justice, Nature and the City (Vol 33:3)
- Mobilities and Mobilizations of the Urban Poor (Vol 36:4)
- Plural Governance, Participation and Democracy in Cities (Vol 32:1)
- The Transformation of Urban Political Leadership in Western Europe (Vol 28.1)
- Urban Movements (Vol 27.1)
- Urban Responses to Climate Change: Theories and Governance Practice in Cities of the Global South (Vol 37:6)
- Where is Urban Politics? (Vol 38:5)
Urban Political Economy: Capital, Production, and Crisis
- Branding, the Entertainment Economy and Urban Place Building (Vol 27:2)
- Entrepreneurial Religion in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism (Vol 40.3)
- Financialization of Housing (Vol 41.4)
- Privatization Bolivian Style: A Cautionary Tale (Vol 23:3)
- Scales of Neoliberalism (Vol 28:4)
- The Sociology and Geography of Mortgage Markets: Reflections on the Financial Crisis (Vol 33:2)
Housing, Segregation, and Space
- Land Development, Inequality and Urban Villages in China (Vol 33:4)
- Power Relations and Social Mix in Metropolitan Neighbourhoods in North America and Europe: Moving Beyond Gentrification? (Vol 38:4)
Urban Infrastructure, Networks, and Matter
- Political Infrastructures: Governing and Experiencing the Fabric of the City (Vol 32:2)
- The New Mega‐Projects: Genesis and Impacts (Vol 32:4)
- Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities (Vol 38:2)