Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays

By Neil Brenner

Critical urban theory

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.

Important contribution to the current discourse on urban theory

Renowned author from the GSD, Harvard University

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3035610118
• ISBN13: 9783035610116
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary