Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and director of the City Institute at York University. Rianne Mahon is a professor and director of the Institute of Political Economy and a member of the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.Contributors: S. Harris Ali, Janet Conway, Liette Gilbert, Nik Heynen, Richard Howitt, Bob Jessop, Stefan Kipfer, Wendy Larner, Richard Le Heron, Helga Leitner, Nick Lewis, Warren Magnusson, Byron Miller, Jamie Peck, L. Anders Sandberg, Eric Sheppard, Erik Swyngedouw, and Gerda R. Wekerle

• PrefaceIntroduction / Rianne Mahon and Roger KeilPart 1: The Scalar Turn1 A Thousand Leaves: Notes on the Geographies of Uneven Spatial Development / Neil Brenner2 Is Scale a Chaotic Concept? Notes on Processes of Scale Production / Byron Miller3 Why the Urban Question Still Matters: Reflections on Rescaling and the Promise of the Urban / Stefan KipferPart 2: Political Scales4 Avoiding Traps, Rescaling States, Governing Europe / Bob Jessop5 Scaling Government to Politics / Warren Magnusson6 Producing Nature, Scaling Environment: Water, Networks, and Territories in Fascist Spain / Erik Swyngedouw7 Getting the Scale Right? A Relational Scale Politics of Native Title in Australia / Richard HowittPart 3: Re/Productive Scales8 The Cult of Urban Creativity / Jamie Peck9 State Spaces of "After Neoliberalism": Co-Constituting the New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry / Wendy Larner, Nick Lewis, and Richard Le Heron10 Public Health and the Political Economy of Scale: Implications for Understanding the Response to the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Outbreak in Toronto / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil11 Of Scalar Hierarchies and Welfare Redesign: Child Care in Four Canadian Cities / Rianne MahonPart 4: The Scale of Movements12 The Spatiality of Contentious Politics: More than a Politics of Scale / Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard13 Regional Resistances in an Exurban Region: Intersections of the Politics of Place and the Politics of Scale / Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg, and Liette Gilbert14 Revolutionary Cooks in the Hungry Ghetto: The Black Panther Party's Biopolitics of Scale from Below / Nik Heynen15 The Empire, the Movement, and the Politics of Scale: Considering the World Social Forum / Janet ConwayConclusion / Rianne Mahon and Roger KeilReferencesContributors

Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and director of the City Institute at York University. Rianne Mahon is a professor and director of the Institute of Political Economy and a member of the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.Contributors: S. Harris Ali, Janet Conway, Liette Gilbert, Nik Heynen, Richard Howitt, Bob Jessop, Stefan Kipfer, Wendy Larner, Richard Le Heron, Helga Leitner, Nick Lewis, Warren Magnusson, Byron Miller, Jamie Peck, L. Anders Sandberg, Eric Sheppard, Erik Swyngedouw, and Gerda R. Wekerle

• PrefaceIntroduction / Rianne Mahon and Roger KeilPart 1: The Scalar Turn1 A Thousand Leaves: Notes on the Geographies of Uneven Spatial Development / Neil Brenner2 Is Scale a Chaotic Concept? Notes on Processes of Scale Production / Byron Miller3 Why the Urban Question Still Matters: Reflections on Rescaling and the Promise of the Urban / Stefan KipferPart 2: Political Scales4 Avoiding Traps, Rescaling States, Governing Europe / Bob Jessop5 Scaling Government to Politics / Warren Magnusson6 Producing Nature, Scaling Environment: Water, Networks, and Territories in Fascist Spain / Erik Swyngedouw7 Getting the Scale Right? A Relational Scale Politics of Native Title in Australia / Richard HowittPart 3: Re/Productive Scales8 The Cult of Urban Creativity / Jamie Peck9 State Spaces of "After Neoliberalism": Co-Constituting the New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry / Wendy Larner, Nick Lewis, and Richard Le Heron10 Public Health and the Political Economy of Scale: Implications for Understanding the Response to the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Outbreak in Toronto / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil11 Of Scalar Hierarchies and Welfare Redesign: Child Care in Four Canadian Cities / Rianne MahonPart 4: The Scale of Movements12 The Spatiality of Contentious Politics: More than a Politics of Scale / Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard13 Regional Resistances in an Exurban Region: Intersections of the Politics of Place and the Politics of Scale / Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg, and Liette Gilbert14 Revolutionary Cooks in the Hungry Ghetto: The Black Panther Party's Biopolitics of Scale from Below / Nik Heynen15 The Empire, the Movement, and the Politics of Scale: Considering the World Social Forum / Janet ConwayConclusion / Rianne Mahon and Roger KeilReferencesContributors

Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and director of the City Institute at York University. Rianne Mahon is a professor and director of the Institute of Political Economy and a member of the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.Contributors: S. Harris Ali, Janet Conway, Liette Gilbert, Nik Heynen, Richard Howitt, Bob Jessop, Stefan Kipfer, Wendy Larner, Richard Le Heron, Helga Leitner, Nick Lewis, Warren Magnusson, Byron Miller, Jamie Peck, L. Anders Sandberg, Eric Sheppard, Erik Swyngedouw, and Gerda R. Wekerle

• PrefaceIntroduction / Rianne Mahon and Roger KeilPart 1: The Scalar Turn1 A Thousand Leaves: Notes on the Geographies of Uneven Spatial Development / Neil Brenner2 Is Scale a Chaotic Concept? Notes on Processes of Scale Production / Byron Miller3 Why the Urban Question Still Matters: Reflections on Rescaling and the Promise of the Urban / Stefan KipferPart 2: Political Scales4 Avoiding Traps, Rescaling States, Governing Europe / Bob Jessop5 Scaling Government to Politics / Warren Magnusson6 Producing Nature, Scaling Environment: Water, Networks, and Territories in Fascist Spain / Erik Swyngedouw7 Getting the Scale Right? A Relational Scale Politics of Native Title in Australia / Richard HowittPart 3: Re/Productive Scales8 The Cult of Urban Creativity / Jamie Peck9 State Spaces of "After Neoliberalism": Co-Constituting the New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry / Wendy Larner, Nick Lewis, and Richard Le Heron10 Public Health and the Political Economy of Scale: Implications for Understanding the Response to the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Outbreak in Toronto / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil11 Of Scalar Hierarchies and Welfare Redesign: Child Care in Four Canadian Cities / Rianne MahonPart 4: The Scale of Movements12 The Spatiality of Contentious Politics: More than a Politics of Scale / Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard13 Regional Resistances in an Exurban Region: Intersections of the Politics of Place and the Politics of Scale / Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg, and Liette Gilbert14 Revolutionary Cooks in the Hungry Ghetto: The Black Panther Party's Biopolitics of Scale from Below / Nik Heynen15 The Empire, the Movement, and the Politics of Scale: Considering the World Social Forum / Janet ConwayConclusion / Rianne Mahon and Roger KeilReferencesContributors