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Ivan Turok is affiliated with the University of the Free State in South Africa and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences and economics with emphasis on urban studies and related subfields. Their scholarly work engages with themes of urban and rural development, housing finance, neoliberalism, and urban governance.

The scientist's research spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these fields, Turok has focused on subfields such as:

  • Urban Studies
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations

Primary topics explored in their research include:

  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Global trade and economics
  • Local Economic Development and Planning

Turok has published papers in several notable venues with recurring contributions including:

  • Environment and Urbanization
  • Development Southern Africa
  • Area Development and Policy
  • Regional Studies
  • Urban Forum

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Turok cover various aspects of urban inequalities, density, and informal housing in African contexts. These include:

  • COVID-19 amplifies urban inequalities, 2021, South African Journal of Science
  • Rural-urban inequalities amplified by COVID-19: evidence from South Africa, 2021, Area Development and Policy
  • Getting urban density to work in informal settlements in Africa, 2020, Environment and Urbanization
  • Informal rental housing in the South: dynamic but neglected, 2020, Environment and Urbanization
  • Inequality and Urban Density: Socio-economic Drivers of Uneven Densification in Cape Town, 2021, Environment and Urbanization Asia

Turok has frequently collaborated with other researchers including:

  • Justin Visagie
  • Andreas Scheba
  • Sören Scholvin
  • Javier Revilla Diez
  • Tazviona Richman Gambe

In addition to journal publications, Turok has contributed to edited volumes and working paper series such as:

  • Building malls or metros? South Africa's exports of tradable urban services to the rest of Africa, 2020, Working Paper Series

Best Publications

  • The trajectories of European cities, 1960–2005

    Ivan Turok;Vlad Mykhnenko

  • Cities, Regions and Competitiveness

    Ivan Turok

  • Urbanization and economic growth: the arguments and evidence for Africa and Asia:

    Ivan Turok;Gordon McGranahan

  • Property-Led Urban Regeneration: Panacea or Placebo?:

    I Turok

  • Changing Cities: Rethinking Urban Competitiveness, Cohesion and Governance

    Alan Harding;N. Buck;I Gordon;I Turok

  • Cities, Clusters and Creative Industries: The Case of Film and Television in Scotland

    Ivan Turok

  • Inward Investment and Local Linkages: How Deeply Embedded is “Silicon Glen”?

    Ivan Turok

  • Persistent Polarisation Post-Apartheid? Progress towards Urban Integration in Cape Town:

    Ivan Turok

  • Competitive Cities: Introduction to the Review

    William F. Lever;Ivan Turok

  • The Distinctive City: Pitfalls in the Pursuit of Differential Advantage

    Ivan Turok

  • The Green Economy: Incremental Change or Transformation?

    Jacqueline Madeleine Borel-Saladin;Ivan Nicholas Turok

  • Central Scotland as a Polycentric Urban Region: Useful Planning Concept or Chimera?

    Nick Bailey;Ivan Turok

  • East European Cities — Patterns of Growth and Decline, 1960–2005

    Vlad Mykhnenko;Ivan Turok

  • Urbanisation and development in South Africa: economic imperatives, spatial distortions and strategic responses

    I. Turok

  • The jobs gap in Britain's cities : employment loss and labour market consequences

    Ivan Turok;Nicola Edge

  • State of the English Cities

    M Parkinson;T Champion;R Evans;J Simmie

  • The new deal: Jeopardised by the geography of unemployment?

    Ivan Turok;David Webster

  • Students in Cities: A Preliminary Analysis of Their Patterns and Effects:

    Moira Munro;Ivan Turok;Mark Livingston

  • Towards Sustainable Cities: Extending Resilience with Insights from Vulnerability and Transition Theory

    Leanne Seeliger;Ivan Turok

  • Spatial inequalities and policies in South Africa: place-based or people-centred?

    Alison Todes;Ivan Turok

  • Reshaping Cities, Rebuilding Nations: The Role of National Urban Policies

    Ivan Turok;Ivan Turok;Susan Parnell

Frequent Co-Authors

Ade Kearns
Ade Kearns University of Glasgow
Mike Raco
Mike Raco University College London
Rowland Atkinson
Rowland Atkinson University of Sheffield
Glen Bramley
Glen Bramley Heriot-Watt University
Richard Mitchell
Richard Mitchell University of Glasgow
Anne E. Green
Anne E. Green University of Birmingham
George C. S. Lin
George C. S. Lin University of Hong Kong
Diana Mitlin
Diana Mitlin University of Manchester
David Satterthwaite
David Satterthwaite International Institute for Environment and Development
Susan Parnell
Susan Parnell University of Cape Town

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