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Volume 32 2008 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Article Index ‘A literal necessity to be re-placed’: a rejoinder to the gentrification debate Tom Slater A response to ‘The eviction of critical perspectives from gentrification research’ Kate Shaw Aboriginal cosmopolitanism Nigel Clark Accra’s sounds and sacred spaces Marleen de Witte An unusual clique of city-makers: social networks in the production of a neighborhood in Beirut (1950-75) Mona Fawaz Building a vision for the post-apartheid city: what role for participation in Johannesburg’s city development strategy? Barbara Lipietz Carceral Chicago: making the ex-offender employability crisis Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore Circuits of secularity or the aesthetics of religion in an age of cities and citations Mark Elmore Citizen participation in a mediated age: neighbourhood governance in the Netherlands Justus Uitermark and Jan Willem Duyvendak ‘Cold spots’ of urban infrastructure: ‘shrinking’ processes in Eastern Germany and the modern infrastructural ideal Timothy Moss Comment on ‘The eviction of critical perspectives from gentrification research’ Lance Freeman Crossroads of religions: shrines, mobility and urban space in Goa Alexander Henn Debate on gentrification AbdouMaliq Simone Dimensions of atypical forms of employment in Thessaloniki, Greece Stelios Gialis and Eleutheria Karnavou Exploring the social face of urban mobility: daily mobility as part of the social structure in Spain Luis A. Camarero and Jestis Oliva Forging glocal governance? Urban infrastructures as networked financial products Morag I. Torrance 2009 The Author. Journal Compilation © 2009 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Published by Blackwe Publishing. 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA 270 Volume index From Annankatu to Antinkatu: contracts, development 804 rights and partnerships in Kamppi, Helsinki Anne Haila Gentrification ‘research’ and the academic nobility: a different class? Chris Allen Governing the contaminated city: infrastructure and sanitation in colonial and post-colonial Bombay Colin McFarlane Implementing social and environmental policies in cities: the case of food policy in Vancouver, Canada Wendy Mendes Institutional responses to EU challenges: attempting to articulate a local regulatory scale in Greece Ioannis Chorianopoulos Legal expertise and the rights of cross-border workers: action group skills in relation to European integration Philippe Hamman Let’s drink to the great thirst! Water and the politics of fractured techno-natures in Sicily Ilaria Giglioli and Erik Swyngedouw Local governance as government—business cooperation in Western democracies: analysing local and intergovernmental effects by multi-level comparison Clemente J. Navarro Ydfiez, Annick Magnier and M. Antonia Ramirez Making class politics possible: organizing contract cleaners in London Jane Wills Mega-projects in New York, London and Amsterdam Susan §. Fainstein Mumbai's development mafias: globalization, organized crime and land development Liza Weinstein New spaces for inclusion? Lessons from the ‘three-thirds’ partnerships in Wales Gillian Bristow, Tom Entwistle, Frances Hines and Steve Martin Occupancy urbanism: radicalizing politics and economy beyond policy and programs Solomon Benjamin Old mega-projects newly repackaged? Waterfront redevelopment in Toronto Ute Lehrer and Jennefer Laidley On ‘The eviction of critical perspectives’ Neil Smith On some challenges and conditions for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to be an effective economic re-activator Beatriz Plaza Participatory budgeting in Europe: potentials and challenges Yves Sintomer, Carsten Herzberg and Anja Rocke Plural governance, participation and democracy in cities Justin Beaumont and Walter Nicholls International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32.1 © 2009 The Author. Journal Compilation © 2009 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Volume index Polish regions in the age of a knowledge-based economy Piotr Zientara Political infrastructures: governing and experiencing the fabric of the city Colin McFarlane and Jonathan Rutherford Provocations on the urban question: four essays AbdouMaliq Simone Recognizing urban public space as a co-educator: children’s socialization in Ghent Sven De Visscher and Maria Bouverne-de Bie Religion and rehabilitation: humanitarian biopolitics, city spaces and acts of religion Yasmeen Arif Relocating gentrification: the working class, science and the state in recent urban research Loic Wacquant Resurgent metropolis: economy, society and urbanization in an interconnected world Allen J. Scott Spaces of modernity: religion and the urban in Asia and Africa Mary Hancock and Smriti Srinivas Stating the production of scales: centrally orchestrated regionalism, regionally orchestrated centralism John Harrison Technologies of government: constituting subjectivities, spaces, and infrastructures in colonial and contemporary Jakarta Michelle Kooy and Karen Bakker The challenges of pursuing cluster policy in the congested state Alex Burfitt and Stewart Macneill The chengzhongcun land market in China: boon or bane? — A perspective on property rights Li Tian The electoral impact of direct-democratic practices Eva Anduiza, Joan Font, Pau Mas and Sergi De Maya The new mega-projects: genesis and impacts Fernando Diaz Orueta and Susan S. Fainstein The only class in town? Gentrification and the middle-class colonization of the city and the urban imagination Paul Watt The politics of urban waterfront regeneration: the case of Hali¢ (the Golden Horn), Istanbul Dikmen Bezmez The role of small towns in regional development and poverty reduction in Ghana George Owusu The sacred geography of Bangkok’s markets Ara Wilson The urban question as cargo cult: opportunities for a new urban pedagogy Rob Shields International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32.1 © 2009 The Author. Journal Compilation © 2009 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 272 Volume s The urban question revisited: the importance of cities for social movements Walter J. Nicholls Towards radicalized communicative rationality: resident involvement and urban democracy in Rotterdam and Antwerp Justin Beaumont and Maarten Loopmans Transitory sites: mapping Dubai’s ‘forgotten’ urban spaces Yasser Elsheshtawy Uneven development, inter-scalar tensions, and the politics of decentralization in South Korea Bae-Gyoon Park Urban expansion and industrial nature: a political ecology of Toronto’s port industrial district Gene Desfor and Lucian Vesalon Urban interventions: art, politics and pedagogy David Pinder Writing the lines of connection: unveiling the strange language of urbanization Nathalie Boucher, Mariana Cavalcanti, Stefan Kipfer, Edgar Pieterse, Vyjayanthi Rao and Nasra Smith (edited by AbdouMaliq Simone and Julie-Anne Boudreau) Author Index Allen, Chris: Gentrification ‘research’ and the academic nobility: a different class? Anduiza, Eva, Joan Font, Pau Mas and Sergi De Maya: The electoral impact of direct-democratic practices Arif, Yasmeen: Religion and rehabilitation: humanitarian biopolitics, city spaces and acts of religion Beaumont, Justin, and Maarten Loopmans: Towards radicalized communicative rationality: resident involvement and urban democracy in Rotterdam and Antwerp Beaumont, Justin, and Walter Nicholls: Plural governance, participation and democracy in cities Benjamin, Solomon: Occupancy urbanism: radicalizing politics and economy beyond policy and programs Bezmez, Dikmen: The politics of urban waterfront regeneration: the case of Halig¢ (the Golden Horn), Istanbul Boucher, Nathalie, Mariana Cavalcanti, Stefan Kipfer, Edgar Pieterse, Vvjayanthi Rao and Nasra Smith (edited by AbdouMalig Simone and Julie-Anne Boudreau): Writing the lines of connection: unveiling the strange language of urbanization Bristow, Gillian, Tom Entwistle, Frances Hines and Steve Martin: New spaces for inclusion? Lessons from the ‘three-thirds’ partnerships in Wales Burfitt, Alex, and Stewart Macneill: The challenges of pursuing cluster policy in the congested state Camarero, Luis A., and Jesus Oliva: Exploring the social face of urban mobility: daily mobility as part of the social structure in Spain International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32.1 2 2009 The Author. Journal Compilation © 2009 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Volume index Chorianopoulos, Ioannis: Institutional responses to EU challenges: attempting to articulate a local regulatory scale in Greece Clark, Nigel: Aboriginal cosmopolitanism De Visscher, Sven, and Maria Bouverne-de Bie: Recognizing urban public space as a co-educator: children’s socialization in Ghent de Witte, Marleen: Accra’s sounds and sacred spaces Desfor, Gene, and Lucian Vesalon: Urban expansion and industrial nature: a political ecology of Toronto’s port industrial district Elmore, Mark: Circuits of secularity or the aesthetics of religion in an age of cities and citations Elsheshtawy, Yasser: Transitory sites: mapping Dubai's ‘forgotten’ urban spaces Fainstein, Susan S.: Mega-projects in New York, London and Amsterdam Fawaz, Mona: An unusual clique of city-makers: social networks in the production of a neighborhood in Beirut (1950-75) Freeman, Lance: Comment on ‘The eviction of critical perspectives from gentrification research’ Gialis, Stelios, and Eleutheria Karnavou: Dimensions of atypical forms of employment in Thessaloniki, Greece Giglioli, Ilaria, and Erik Swyngedouw: Let’s drink to the great thirst! Water and the politics of fractured techno-natures in Sicily Haila, Anne: From Annankatu to Antinkatu: contracts, development rights and partnerships in Kamppi, Helsinki Hamman, Philippe: Legal expertise and the rights of cross-border workers: action group skills in relation to European integration Hancock, Mary, and Smriti Srinivas: Spaces of modernity: religion and the urban in Asia and Africa Harrison, John: Stating the production of scales: centrally orchestrated regionalism, regionally orchestrated centralism Henn, Alexander: Crossroads of religions: shrines, mobility and urban space in Goa Kooy, Michelle, and Karen Bakker: Technologies of government: constituting subjectivities, spaces, and infrastructures in colonial and contemporary Jakarta Lehrer, Ute, and Jennefer Laidley: Old mega-projects newly repackaged? Waterfront redevelopment in Toronto Lipietz, Barbara: Building a vision for the post-apartheid city: what role for participation in Johannesburg’s city development strategy? McFarlane, Colin, and Jonathan Rutherford: Political infrastructures: governing and experiencing the fabric of the city McFarlane, Colin: Governing the contaminated city: infrastructure and sanitation in colonial and post-colonial Bombay Mendes, Wendy: Implementing social and environmental policies in cities: the case of food policy in Vancouver, Canada Moss, Timothy: ‘Cold spots’ of urban infrastructure: ‘shrinking’ processes in Eastern Germany and the modern infrastructural ideal International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32.1 © 2009 The Author. Journal Compilation © 2009 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 274 Volume index Navarro Ydfiez, Clemente J., Annick Magnier and M. Antonia Ramirez: 531 Local governance as government—business cooperation in Western democracies: analysing local and intergovernmental effects by multi-level comparison Nicholls, Walter J.: The urban question revisited: the importance of cities for social movements Diaz Orueta, Fernando, and Susan §. Fainstein: The new mega-projects: genesis and impacts Owusu, George: The role of small towns in regional development and poverty reduction in Ghana Park, Bae-Gyoon: Uneven development, inter-scalar tensions, and the politics of decentralization in South Korea Peck, Jamie, and Nik Theodore: Carceral Chicago: making the ex-offender employability crisis Pinder, David: Urban interventions: art, politics and pedagogy Plaza, Beatriz: On some challenges and conditions for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to be an effective economic re-activator Scott, Allen J.: Resurgent metropolis: economy, society and urbanization in an interconnected world Shaw, Kate: A response to ‘The eviction of critical perspectives from gentrification research’ Shields, Rob: The urban question as cargo cult: opportunities for a new urban pedagogy Simone, AbdouMaliq: Debate on gentrification Simone, AbdouMaliq: Provocations on the urban question: four essays Sintomer, Yves, Carsten Herzberg and Anja Rocke: Participatory budgeting in Europe: potentials and challenges Slater, Tom: *A literal necessity to be re-placed’: a rejoinder to the gentrification debate Smith, Neil: On ‘The eviction of critical perspectives’ Tian, Li: The chengzhongcun l\and market in China: boon or bane? — A perspective on property rights Torrance, Morag I.: Forging glocal governance? Urban infrastructures as networked financial products Uitermark, Justus, and Jan Willem Duyvendak: Citizen participation in a mediated age: neighbourhood governance in the Netherlands Wacquant, Loic: Relocating gentrification: the working class, science and the state in recent urban research Watt, Paul: The only class in town? Gentrification and the middle-class colonization of the city and the urban imagination Weinstein, Liza: Mumbai’s development mafias: globalization, organized crime and land development Wills, Jane: Making class politics possible: organizing contract cleaners in London Wilson, Ara: The sacred geography of Bangkok’s markets Zientara, Piotr: Polish regions in the age of a knowledge-based economy International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32.1 © 2009 The Author. Journal Compilation © 2009 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Volume index Book Reviews Bailey, Nick, and Mark Livingston Population turnover and area deprivation Reviewer: Reinout Kleinhans Bauder, Harald Labor movement: how migration regulates labor markets Reviewer: Adina Batnitzky Beningfield, Jennfier The frightened land: land, landscape and politics in South Africa in the twentieth century Reviewer: Yonn Dierwechter Bratt, Rachel, Michael Stone and Chester Hartman (eds.) Right to housing: foundation for a new social agenda Reviewer: Nigel Sprigings Burchell, Robert W., Anthony Downs, Barbara McCann and Sahan Mukherji Sprawl costs: economic impacts of unchecked development Reviewer: Jon C. Teaford Checker, Melissa Polluted promises: environmental racism and the search for justice in a southern town Reviewer: Julian Agyeman Clark, Peter (ed.) The European city and green space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg, 1850-2000 Reviewer: Robert Rotenberg Daniels, Peter W., Michael J. Bradshaw, Jonathan Beaverstock and Andrew Leyshon (eds.) Geographies of the new economy: critical reflections Reviewer: Richard Le Heron Das, Keshab (ed.) Indian industrial clusters Reviewer: Sarita Kamra Douglass, Mike, K.C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi Globalization, the city, and civil society in Pacific Asia: the social production of civil spaces Reviewer: John Friedmann Golley, Jane The dynamics of Chinese regional development — market nature, state nurture Reviewer: Yiping Fang Gutfreund, Owen D. Twentieth-century sprawl: highways and the reshaping of the American landscape Reviewer: Jon C. Teaford Harvey, Graham, and Charles D. Thompson, Jr. Indigenous diasporas and dislocations Reviewer: Bettina Ng’ weno Jenkins, Sarah Gender, place and the labour market Reviewer: Adina Batnitzky Jordan, Bill Social policy for the twenty-first century Reviewer: Barbara Da Roit Kincaid, Andrew Postcolonial Dublin: imperial legacies and the built environment Reviewer: Charles Travis King, Anthony D. Spaces of global cultures. Architecture, urbanism, identity Reviewer: Ben Derudder International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32.1 © 2009 The Author. Journal Compilation © 2009 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. — 276 Volume index Koch, Max (ed.) Roads to post-Fordism. Labour 750 markets and social structures in Europe Reviewer: Renata Semenza Lambright, Anne, and Elisabeth Guerrero (eds.) Unfolding tao the city: women write the city in Latin America Reviewer: Christien Klaufus Levine, Jonathan Zoned out: regulations, markets, and choices in transportation and metropolitan land-use Reviewer: Jon C. Teaford Light, Ivan Deflecting immigration: networks, markets, and regulation in Los Angeles Reviewer: Edward J.W. Park Massey, Doreen For space Reviewer: Eric Sheppard Neuwirth, Robert Shadow cities; a billion squatters, a new urban world Reviewer: David Satterthwaite Patel, Sujata, and Kushal Deb (eds.) Urban studies Reviewer: Liza Weinstein Salet, Willem, and Enrico Gualini (eds.) Framing strategic urban projects: learning from current experiences in European urban regions Reviewer: Marisol Garcia Sanyal, Bishwapriya (ed.) Comparative planning cultures Reviewer: Anirban Pal Savitch, Hank V. Cities in a time oft error. Space, territory, and local resilience Reviewer: Sophie Body-Gendrot Squires, Gregory D., and Charis E. Kubrin Privileged places: race, residence and the structure of opportunity Reviewer: Jennifer Darrah Tajbakhsh, Kian The promise of the city: space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought Reviewer: Robert A. Beauregard Watson, Sophie City publics: the (dis)enchantment of urban encounters Reviewer: Tim Butler Winslow, Simon, and Steve Hal Violent night: urban leisure and contemporary culture Reviewer: Mark Jayne Wood, Phil, and Charles Landry The intercultural city: planninfgo r diversity advantage Reviewer: Liette Gilbert International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32.1 2009 The Author. Journal Compilation © 2009 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd