New Urban Spaces

Neil Brenner is Professor of Urban Theory at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Brenner is among the most widely cited contemporary urban theorists. Previous books include New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood; Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (editor); and Critique of Urbanization. Brenner has made influential contributions to scholarly debates on critical urban theory, the critique of capitalist urbanization, urban restructuring, state space, the political economy of rescaling, variegated neoliberalization and planetary urbanization.

1 Openings: The Urban Question as a Scale Question?
2 Between Fixity and Motion: Scaling the Urban Fabric
3 Restructuring, Rescaling and the Urban Question
4 Global city formation and the rescaling of urbanization
5 Cities and the Political Geographies of the 'New' Economy
6 Competitive City-Regionalism and the Politics of Scale
7 Urban Growth Machines-But at What Scale?
8 A Thousand Layers: Geographies of Uneven Development
9 Planetary Urbanization: Mutations of the Urban Question
10 Afterword: New Spaces of Urbanization
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Index