The IJURR Symposium section presented edited collections of articles around a specific theme. With the aim of bringing fresh perspectives and insights to urban and regional debates, symposia were comprised of articles that sought an in-depth and comparative exploration of an important urban theme or concept. All the symposia published in IJURR can be found below.

All Symposia

Cities and theories

• Creative Cities (Vol 43.3)
• Critical Urban Theory in the ‘Urban Age’ (Vol 45.4)
• Engineering Cities (Vol 42.2)
• Planning Histories and Practices of Circulating Urban Knowledge (Vol 37:5)
• Theorizing the Politicizing City (Vol 41.1)

Urban Marginality, Citizenship, and Class

• Local Governance and Participation under Neoliberalism: Comparative Perspectives (Vol 34:1)
• Participation in Urban Contention and Deliberation (Vol 34:3)
• Urban Citizenship and Right to the City (Vol 39.4)
• Urban Terror (Vol 27:3)

Cities and regions

• Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local (Vol 38:1)
• Globalization and Cities in Comparative Perspective (Vol 29:1)
• Local Politics and the Circulation of Community Security Initiatives in Johannesburg (Vol 36:5)
• Recentering Southeast Asian Cities (Vol 37:3)
• Spaces of Modernity: Religion and the Urban in Asia and Africa (Vol 32:3)
• Spatial Spillovers Revisited (Vol 41.6)
• State Rescaling in Non‐Western Contexts (Vol 37:4)
• Urban shrinkage in Germany and the USA: A Comparison of Transformation Patterns and Local Strategies (Vol 36:2)

Politics, movements, and culture

• Deliberative Democracy and Local Governance: Towards a New Agenda (Vol 30:3)
• Justice, Nature and the City (Vol 33:3)
• Mobilities and Mobilizations of the Urban Poor (Vol 36:4)
• Plural Governance, Participation and Democracy in Cities (Vol 32:1)
• The Transformation of Urban Political Leadership in Western Europe (Vol 28.1)
• Urban Movements (Vol 27.1)
• Urban Responses to Climate Change: Theories and Governance Practice in Cities of the Global South (Vol 37:6)
• Where is Urban Politics? (Vol 38:5)

Urban Political Economy: Capital, Production, and Crisis

• Branding, the Entertainment Economy and Urban Place Building (Vol 27:2)
• Entrepreneurial Religion in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism (Vol 40.3)
• Financialization of Housing (Vol 41.4)
• Privatization Bolivian Style: A Cautionary Tale (Vol 23:3)
• Scales of Neoliberalism (Vol 28:4)
• The Sociology and Geography of Mortgage Markets: Reflections on the Financial Crisis (Vol 33:2)

Housing, Segregation, and Space

• Land Development, Inequality and Urban Villages in China (Vol 33:4)
• Power Relations and Social Mix in Metropolitan Neighbourhoods in North America and Europe: Moving Beyond Gentrification? (Vol 38:4)

Urban Infrastructure, Networks, and Matter

• Political Infrastructures: Governing and Experiencing the Fabric of the City (Vol 32:2)
• The New Mega‐Projects: Genesis and Impacts (Vol 32:4)
• Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities (Vol 38:2)