Urban Research & Practice – Volume 19, Issue 2
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Contents:
Research Articles
Urban biodiversity and green space maintenance: limitations and chances in German cities
Florian Zenglein, Johanna L. Berger & Margarita Hartlieb
Pages: 183-205
When flexibility backfires: justification of flexibility and legal loopholes in Poland’s adaptive Housing Specust law
Maciej J. Nowak & Tuna Tasan-Kok
Pages: 206-224
Data debates in urban development: the data politics of facts and counter-facts
Rob Kitchin
Pages: 225-244
Lost in translation: urbanity as a floating signifier in the planning of Kalasatama Centre, Helsinki
Tuomas Ilmavirta
Pages: 245-266
Social inclusion vs social peace. Institutional logics in local policies concerning vulnerable intra-EU migrants
Jenny Kunhardt
Pages: 267-290
From nostalgia to disdain: the contested role of industrial heritage narratives in legitimising post-industrial urban transformation
Maruša Goluža & David Bole
Pages: 291-313
Dispossession by co-optation: state-led rent gap-driven gentrification in Abkouh neighbourhood, Mashhad, Iran
Hossein Maroufi
Pages: 314-332
Florian Zenglein, Johanna L. Berger & Margarita Hartlieb
Pages: 183-205
Maciej J. Nowak & Tuna Tasan-Kok
Pages: 206-224
Rob Kitchin
Pages: 225-244
Tuomas Ilmavirta
Pages: 245-266
Jenny Kunhardt
Pages: 267-290
Maruša Goluža & David Bole
Pages: 291-313
Hossein Maroufi
Pages: 314-332
Policy Article
Planning for housing: urban plans and housing supply goals in large European metropolises
Mikel Berra-Sandin
Pages: 333-343
Mikel Berra-Sandin
Pages: 333-343
Practice Article
Between cultural ideals and entrepreneurial realities: Shanghai’s state-led waterfront regeneration practices
Jie Chen & Yiming Wang
Pages: 344-353
Jie Chen & Yiming Wang
Pages: 344-353
Book Reviews
The Routledge Handbook of degrowth
edited by Anitra Nelson, London, Routledge, 2025, 530 pp., $225.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781032645247
Reviewed by Giulia Belotti & Holly Caggiano
Pages: 354-356
Fragmenting cities: the state, territorial stigmatization and urban marginality
by T. Schultz Larsen and K. Nagel Delica, Edward Elgar, Cities Series, 2024, V-IX + 262 pp.
Reviewed by Basak Tanulku
Pages: 357-359
edited by Anitra Nelson, London, Routledge, 2025, 530 pp., $225.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781032645247
Reviewed by Giulia Belotti & Holly Caggiano
Pages: 354-356
by T. Schultz Larsen and K. Nagel Delica, Edward Elgar, Cities Series, 2024, V-IX + 262 pp.
Reviewed by Basak Tanulku
Pages: 357-359
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).
