From aggregate mines on Jakarta’s outskirts to the city’s flood barriers, this article follows the material and labour flows that metabolically sustain urban climate infrastructure.
By Sophie Webber & Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
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From cement extraction to rice solidarity during the pandemic, this article examines how city and non-city inhabitants forge political connections across the spaces of urbanization
By Isnu Putra Pratama, Delik Hudalah, Haryo Winarso, Tim Bunnell
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City branding is never just about image. Using Dalian as a case study, this article shows how branding-driven urban development can advance political careers while producing uneven social outcomes.
By Chen Li & Di Wu
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📚 Friday Reads from IJURR
This week’s review spotlights Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI, edited by Federico Cugurullo and colleagues.
🔍 Reviewer Alfie Greenwood (University College London)
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📚 Friday Reads from IJURR
This week’s review spotlights The Urban Brain by Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald.
🔍 Reviewer Richard Harris (McMaster University)
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Using Kochi as a case study, this article examines how smart city control rooms transform institutions, infrastructures, and imaginaries of urban governance in India.
By Devika Prakash, Andrew Karvonen, Jonathan Metzger
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Urban metabolism is being redesigned. Focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead, this article investigates how new landscape interventions reveal some urban processes while obscuring others.
By Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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Beyond traffic control: street enforcement as a project of moral regulation, nation-building, and cultural growth in urban China.
By Gregory Fayard
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An intra-urban comparison of Kibera and Eastleigh reveals how pandemic-era water experiences were shaped by longstanding infrastructural inequalities and uneven state intervention.
By Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm
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Urban land use–food system integration in Australia is uneven. This article develops a what–why–how framework to assess barriers, drivers, and pathways for more effective policy integration.
By Lijun Summerhayes, Douglas Baker
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