Authors meet Critics is a joint initiative of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) and the Studies in Urban and Social Change book series published by Wiley-Blackwell. It aims at establishing a closer link between readership and authors, supporting scholarly debate at an international level with new technologies. In particular, it wants to provide younger scholars with an opportunity to engage in a debate with IJURR and SUSC authors.
Authors Meet Critics 2015
See the 2015 syllabus below:
| No. | Author | Title | Dates | IJURR/SUSC | Transcripts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrew Karvonen Bas Van Heur | Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities | 14/01/2015 | 2014 IJURR 38.2, pp. 379-92 | |
| 2 | David J. Madden | Neighborhood as Spatial Project: Making the Urban Order on the Downtown Brooklyn Waterfront | 27/01/2015 | 2014 IJURR 38.2, pp. 471-97 | |
| 3 | Kiril Stanilov Ludĕk Sykora | Confronting Suburbanization: Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe | 11/02/2015 | 2014 SUSC | |
| 4 | Berna Turam | The Primacy of Space in Politics: Bargaining Rights, Freedom and Power in an Istanbul Neighbourhood | 26/02/2015 | 2013 IJURR 37.2, pp. 409-29 | |
| 5 | Alex Schafran | Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure | 18/03/2015 | 2013 IJURR 37.2, pp. 663-88 | |
| 6 | Brett Christophers | Wild Dragons in the City: Urban Political Economy, Affordable Housing Development and the Performative World-making of Economic Models | 25/03/2015 | 2014 IJURR 38.1, pp. 79-97 | |
| 7 | Neil Brenner Christian Schmid | The 'Urban Age' in Question | 15/04/2015 | 2014 IJURR 38.3, pp. 731-55 | |
| 8 | Alberta Andreotti Patrick Le Galès F. Javier Moreno-Fuentes | Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper-middle Classes in Europe | 29/04/2015 | 2014 SUSC | |
| 9 | Allen J. Scott Michael Storper | The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory | 13/05/2015 | 2015 IJURR 39.1, pp. 1-15 |