New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question by Neil Brenner (English)

Description: New Urban Spaces by Neil Brenner In New Urban Spaces, Neil Brenner proposes a radical reconceptualization of inherited approaches to urbanization. Rather than focusing on cities as bounded units, urbanization is conceived here as multiscalar. Drawing on the methods of critical geopolitical economy, especially the writings of Henri Lefebvre, Brenner systematically elaborates this multiscalar conceptualization of the capitalist urban fabric in order to investigate emergent patterns andpathways of urban restructuring. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 boundedsettlement 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 tostate 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. Author Biography 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 scholarlydebates on critical urban theory, the critique of capitalist urbanization, urban restructuring, state space, the political economy of rescaling, variegated neoliberalization and planetary urbanization. Table of Contents 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 Review "Brenners work will undoubtedly inspire future theorists of alter-urbanizations..." -- Julian B. Hartman, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, University of Arizona, The AAG Review of Books (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group)"New Urban Spaces is a landmark contribution to urban and regional studies. Through a rich, dense and provocative argument, Neil Brenner synthesizes over a decade-and-a-halfs work on state rescaling, globalization and urban governance into a comprehensive and radical retheorization of urbanization" -- Jean-Paul D. Addie, Georgia State University, Regional Studies"Brenners new book New Urban Spaces - Urban Theory and the Scale Question reads as a poignant and well-articulated (self-)critique of what the author sees as a dominant tendency in urban theory to envisage the urban and the rural in opposition to each other... [New Urban Spaces] offers a skillfully-wrought exploration by a leading scholar of urban theory into the multi-scalar realm of urbanity and its highly complex interpenetrations withstate power..." -- David Leupold, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Eurasian Geography and Economics"Brenners most recent monograph is a challenging, dense and surprising read that will likely reshape our understanding of the long-established scholarship of one of the worlds finest contemporary urban theorists ... [The book offers] a fundamental contribution, both to recent and current debates focusing on the nature of urban theory per se, and more generally to a broader conceptualization of our role as urban scholars. It raises key questions around thechanging positionality of urban scholars, and about whether we should lay our previous work to rest within its historical framing or instead constantly revisit it whilst we grapple with the changing (andunequal) realities around us." Michele Acuto, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR)"New Urban Spaces is a landmark contribution to urban and regional studies. Through a rich, dense and provocative argument, Neil Brenner synthesizes over a decade-and-a-halfs work on state rescaling, globalization and urban governance into a comprehensive and radical retheorization of urbanization... Brenner has provided a vital...statement on, and an incisive analytical instrument to cut through, the unfolding problematics of our planetary urbancondition." -Jean-Paul D. Addie, Regional Studies Long Description 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 boundedsettlement 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 inheritedformations 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. Review Text "Brenners work will undoubtedly inspire future theorists of alter-urbanizations..." -- Julian B. Hartman, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, University of Arizona, The AAG Review of Books (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group)"New Urban Spaces is a landmark contribution to urban and regional studies. Through a rich, dense and provocative argument, Neil Brenner synthesizes over a decade-and-a-halfs work on state rescaling, globalization and urban governance into a comprehensive and radical retheorization of urbanization" -- Jean-Paul D. Addie, Georgia State University, Regional Studies"Brenners new book New Urban Spaces - Urban Theory and the Scale Question reads as a poignant and well-articulated (self-)critique of what the author sees as a dominant tendency in urban theory to envisage the urban and the rural in opposition to each other... [New Urban Spaces] offers a skillfully-wrought exploration by a leading scholar of urban theory into the multi-scalar realm of urbanity and its highly complex interpenetrations withstate power..." -- David Leupold, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Eurasian Geography and Economics"Brenners most recent monograph is a challenging, dense and surprising read that will likely reshape our understanding of the long-established scholarship of one of the worlds finest contemporary urban theorists ... [The book offers] a fundamental contribution, both to recent and current debates focusing on the nature of urban theory per se, and more generally to a broader conceptualization of our role as urban scholars. It raises key questions around thechanging positionality of urban scholars, and about whether we should lay our previous work to rest within its historical framing or instead constantly revisit it whilst we grapple with the changing (andunequal) realities around us." Michele Acuto, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR)"New Urban Spaces is a landmark contribution to urban and regional studies. Through a rich, dense and provocative argument, Neil Brenner synthesizes over a decade-and-a-halfs work on state rescaling, globalization and urban governance into a comprehensive and radical retheorization of urbanization... Brenner has provided a vital...statement on, and an incisive analytical instrument to cut through, the unfolding problematics of our planetary urbancondition." -Jean-Paul D. Addie, Regional Studies Review Quote "New Urban Spaces is a landmark contribution to urban and regional studies. Through a rich, dense and provocative argument, Neil Brenner synthesizes over a decade-and-a-halfs work on state rescaling, globalization and urban governance into a comprehensive and radical retheorization of urbanization" -- Jean-Paul D. Addie, Georgia State University, Regional Studies "Brenners new book New Urban Spaces - Urban Theory and the Scale Question reads as a poignant and well-articulated (self-)critique of what the author sees as a dominant tendency in urban theory to envisage the urban and the rural in opposition to each other... [New Urban Spaces] offers a skillfully-wrought exploration by a leading scholar of urban theory into the multi-scalar realm of urbanity and its highly complex interpenetrations with state power..." -- David Leupold, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Eurasian Geography and Economics "Brenners most recent monograph is a challenging, dense and surprising read that will likely reshape our understanding of the long-established scholarship of one of the worlds finest contemporary urban theorists ... [The book offers] a fundamental contribution, both to recent and current debates focusing on the nature of urban theory per se, and more generally to a broader conceptualization of our role as urban scholars. It raises key questions around the changing positionality of urban scholars, and about whether we should lay our previous work to rest within its historical framing or instead constantly revisit it whilst we grapple with the changing (and unequal) realities around us." Michele Acuto, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) "New Urban Spaces is a landmark contribution to urban and regional studies. Through a rich, dense and provocative argument, Neil Brenner synthesizes over a decade-and-a-halfs work on state rescaling, globalization and urban governance into a comprehensive and radical retheorization of urbanization... Brenner has provided a vital...statement on, and an incisive analytical instrument to cut through, the unfolding problematics of our planetary urban condition." -Jean-Paul D. Addie, Regional Studies Feature Selling point: Critiques and reformulates inherited approaches to urbanizationSelling point: Synthesizes and extends the authors previous work on the rescaling of urbanizationSelling point: Builds upon the influential perspective of French Marxist theorist Henri LefebvreSelling point: Outlines a vision of urban theory that diverges sharply from mainstream approaches to urban science as well as influential strands of poststructuralist urban research New Feature 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 Bibliography Acknowledgements and sources Index Details ISBN0190627190 Language English ISBN-10 0190627190 ISBN-13 9780190627195 Format Paperback Author Neil Brenner Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Year 2019 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Subtitle Urban Theory and the Scale Question Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 307.76 Position Professor Affiliation Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design Short Title New Urban Spaces Publication Date 2019-08-01 UK Release Date 2019-08-01 NZ Release Date 2019-08-01 US Release Date 2019-08-01 Illustrations 10 Line drawings; 15 Halftones Alternative 9780190627188 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2019-07-03 Pages 480 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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