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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