Urban Research & Practice – Volume 19, Issue 3
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Contents:
Local Governments and the Illiberal Turn
Editorial: what this special issue is about and why the studied countries are chosen
Hubert Heinelt
Pages: 361-363
Recentralisation shift in Poland between 2015 and 2023: severe, though fragmented
Marta Lackowska & Wirginia Aksztejn
Pages: 364-383
The politics of recentralisation: local governance under Türkiye’s illiberal turn
Evrim Tan & Irmak Özer
Pages: 384-414
From champion of decentralization to illiberal recentralization in Hungarian local government
Gábor Dobos, László Kákai & Ilona Pálné Kovács
Pages: 415-434
Studying recentralisation in countries experiencing an illiberal turn – from a new framework to comparative lessons drawing
Hubert Heinelt & Marta Lackowska
Pages: 435-453
Hubert Heinelt
Pages: 361-363
Marta Lackowska & Wirginia Aksztejn
Pages: 364-383
Evrim Tan & Irmak Özer
Pages: 384-414
Gábor Dobos, László Kákai & Ilona Pálné Kovács
Pages: 415-434
Hubert Heinelt & Marta Lackowska
Pages: 435-453
Policy Article
Upscaling local innovation: metropolitan retrofit governance in Barcelona through the ‘Pla Metropolità de Rehabilitació d’Habitatges 2020–2030’
Lucía Cerrada Morato & Rosina Vinyes-Ballbe
Pages: 454-469
Lucía Cerrada Morato & Rosina Vinyes-Ballbe
Pages: 454-469
Practice Article
State-led industrial heritage reuse as global urban strategy: practices from the Shanghai Urban Space Art Season
Jie Chen & Yiming Wang
Pages: 470-480
Jie Chen & Yiming Wang
Pages: 470-480
Book Reviews
The AI City
by W.U.S. Zhiqiang, Singapore, Springer Nature, 2025, xix + 248 pp., EUR €49.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-981-96-2559-8
Reviewed by Fatih Eren
Pages: 481-483
City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh
by Tanzil Shafique, Bristol, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 196 pp., $35.95 (hardback), ISBN 9781350438606; ePDF ISBN 9781350438620
Reviewed by Anupreet Singh Tiwana
Pages: 484-485
by W.U.S. Zhiqiang, Singapore, Springer Nature, 2025, xix + 248 pp., EUR €49.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-981-96-2559-8
Reviewed by Fatih Eren
Pages: 481-483
by Tanzil Shafique, Bristol, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 196 pp., $35.95 (hardback), ISBN 9781350438606; ePDF ISBN 9781350438620
Reviewed by Anupreet Singh Tiwana
Pages: 484-485
Urban Research & Practice, the European Urban Research Association journal, provides a systematic description of urban issues, urban developments and urban policy and implementation.
It seeks to explain variations in urban policies or urban governance and analyse and evaluate the effects of these polices and processes. It also looks at the European-wide factors that impact on urban areas, urban policies and urban governance.
For any query with regard to our journal please contact the editors Professors Cristiana Rossignolo (email: cristiana.rossignolo@polito.it), Paula Russell (email: paula.russell@ucd.ie).
