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 Fabric3 Restructuring, Rescaling and the Urban Question4 Global city formation and the rescaling of urbanization5 Cities and the Political Geographies of the 'New' Economy6 Competitive City-Regionalism and the Politics of Scale7 Urban Growth Machines-But at What Scale? 8 A Thousand Layers: Geographies of Uneven Development9 Planetary Urbanization: Mutations of the Urban Question10 Afterword: New Spaces of UrbanizationBibliographyAcknowledgements and sourcesIndex

Brenner's work will undoubtedly inspire future theorists of alter-urbanizations...