New Urban Spaces

Urban Theory and the Scale Question

AvNeil Brenner

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. In New Urban Spaces, Neil Brenner argues that understanding these mutations of urban life requires not only concrete research, but new theories of urbanization. To this end, Brenner proposes an approach that breaks with inherited conceptions of the urban as a bounded settlement unit-the city or the metropolis-and explores the multiscalar constitution and periodic rescaling of the capitalist urban fabric. Drawing on critical geopolitical economy and spatialized approaches to state theory, Brenner offers a paradigmatic account of how rescaling processes are transforming inherited formations of urban space and their variegated consequences for emergent patterns and pathways of urbanization. The book also advances an understanding of critical urban theory as radically revisable: key urban concepts must be continually reinvented in relation to the relentlessly mutating worlds of urbanization they aspire to illuminate.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-01
Mått:239 x 160 x 25 mm
Vikt:794 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:480
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190627188

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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.

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

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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