New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question

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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Brenner, Neil

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism. Whereas most analysts of the emergent, post-Westphalian world order have focused on supranational and national institutional realignments, New State Spaces shows that strategic subnational spaces, such as cities and city-regions, represent essential arenas in which states are being transformed. Brenner traces the transformation of urban governance in western Europe during the last four decades and, on this basis, argues that inherited geographies of state power are being fundamentally rescaled. Through a combination of theory construction, historical analysis and cross-national case studies of urban policy change, New State Spaces provides an innovative analysis of the new formations of state power that are currently emerging.

New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood

In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism. Whereas most analysts of the emergent, post-Westphalian world order have focused on supranational and national institutional realignments, New State Spaces shows that strategic subnational spaces, such as cities and city-regions, represent essential arenas in which states are being transformed. Brenner traces the transformation of urban governance in western Europe during the last four decades and, on this basis, argues that inherited geographies of state power are being fundamentally rescaled. Through a combination of theory construction, historical analysis and cross-national case studies of urban policy change, New State Spaces provides an innovative analysis of the new formations of state power that are currently emerging.

State / Space: A Reader

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism. 
<ul> <li>The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism. 
</li> <li>A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era. 
</li> <li>Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emerging under contemporary conditions of ‘globalization'. 
</li> <li>Explores state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives. 
</li> <li>Covers a range of topical issues in contemporary geographical political economy. 
</li> <li>Contains case study material on Western Europe, North America and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America.</li> </ul>

Wiley/Blackwell

How can we map the urbanization of the planet? To confront this question, the Urban Theory Lab presents a series of experimental visualizations of the worldwide urban fabric. Reversing conventional understandings of urbanization as a process of city growth, the 12 data-spheres reveal the importance of operational landscapes beyond the city (zones of agriculture, extraction, forestry and fishing), as well as planetary logistical infrastructures, that directly support urban life. By illustrating how radically divergent cartographies of an urbanized planet can be constructed on the basis of different indicators, the visualizations are intended to interrupt the authoritative, scientific "aura" that often pervades geospatial representations of our urbanizing planet. The counter-visualizations presented here invite viewers to question their own cognitive maps of contemporary urbanization, and to imagine new urban worlds that might more fully embody our collective aspirations. This volume is based upon the Urban Theory Lab's exhibition at the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021, and includes critical reflections by Martín Arboleda, Danika Cooper, Kian Goh, Julie Klinger, Jason Moore, Robert Pietrusko, and Mindi Schneider. With a foreword by the exhibition curators, Hashim Sarkis, and Roi Salgueiro Barrio, and an afterword by Alexander Arroyo.With Contributions by Martín Arboleda, Danika Cooper, Kian Goh, Julie Klinger, Jason Moore, Robert Pietrusko, and Mindi Schneider. Foreword by Hashim Sarkis and Roi Salgueiro Barrio. Afterword by Alexander Arroyo.

Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization

Science & Math

Bašić, Grga

Gomez-Luque, Mariano

Ibáñez, Daniel

Katsikis, Niko

Earth Sciences

Actar

“Every building, every infrastructure and every regulatory framework is traversed by power relations, ideological visions and institutionalized exclusions that benefit some populations at the expense of others…” -From the Preface of Critique of Urbanization Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some of the dominant urban discourses of our time, which naturalize, and thus depoliticize, the enclosures, exclusions, injustices and irrationalities of neoliberal urbanism. In so doing, Brenner advocates a constant reinvention of the framing categories, methods and assumptions of critical urban theory in relation to the rapidly mutating geographies of capitalist urbanization. Only a theory that is dynamic—which is constantly being transformed in relation to the restlessly evolving social worlds and territorial landscapes it aspires to grasp—can be a genuinely critical theory.

Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays (Bauwelt Fundamente) (Bauwelt Fundamente, 156)

Sociology

Birkhauser

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New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question

New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question

New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood

New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood

State / Space: A Reader

Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization

Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays (Bauwelt Fundamente) (Bauwelt Fundamente, 156)