New Urban Spaces - Urban Theory and the Scale Question (Relié)

"New Urban Spaces is a masterpiece of geographical thought. Neil Brenner has given us something more than a brilliant reckoning of late capitalism's urban spaces. He has delivered a repertoire of conceptual and theoretical insights fundamental to understanding the urban process as a planetary forcefield, a vortex of power and capital that now reaches into even the most remote environments. It is a rare book indeed : full of generative insights, yet fearless in its willingness to think beyond its core conceptualizations.
New Urban Spaces should be read and debated seriously by all those who seek to grasp—and to transcend—capitalism's revolutionary geographies of scale, power, and life." Jason W. Moore, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, and author of Capitalism in the Web of Life. "Neil Brenner's New Urban Spaces is a brilliant retheorization of urbanization. In this must-read contribution to the literature, he offers a welcome and timely critique of the "methodological cityism" embedded in past urban studies.
Through its reflexively multiscalar approach to planetary urbanization as an urgent new horizon for urban theory, Brenner speaks insightfully to the continued significance of states in delineating urban spaces and in the simultaneous global dynamics of capital." Nina Glick Schiller, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. "In this magisterial book, Neil Brenner develops a systematic theoretical inquiry into how the scale question informs critical urban theory to uncover present-day dynamics of urbanization at a planetary scale.
Once again, Brenner demonstrates the political and intellectual power of rigorous theoretical analysis as the pathway to understanding and transforming the urban fabric. An instant classic." Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester