Spaces of Neoliberalism
Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe
Antipode Book Series
December 2002
312 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-4051-0105-9
John Wiley & Sons
This is the first volume to analyse systematically the role of
neoliberalism in contemporary processes of urban
restructuring.
* * Includes contributions from leading scholars in the fields of
critical urban studies, radical geography and state theory.
* Analyses the role of neoliberalism in contemporary processes of
urban restructuring.
* Synthesises a variety of new theoretical approaches to key
issues in contemporary urban studies.
* Incorporates new case study material of ongoing urban
transformations in the USA, Canada, the UK and other Western
European countries.
Preface.
Part I: The Urbanization of Neoliberalism: Theoretical
Foundations.
Part II: Cities and State Restructuring: Pathways and
Contradictions.
Part III: New Geographies of Power: Exclusion and Injustice.
Part I: The Urbanization of Neoliberalism: Theoretical
Foundations.
Part II: Cities and State Restructuring: Pathways and
Contradictions.
Part III: New Geographies of Power: Exclusion and Injustice.
"...a fantastic, empirically rich and theoretically innovative,
exploration of the macropolitical realignment and ongoing spatial
restructuring that have taken place since the 1970s. This is
cutting-edge urban research: not only students of contemporary
cities and their institutional geographies, but municipal policy
makers as well as activists concerned with reshaping cities towards
more democratic and socially just ends will find this collection
indispensable." Margit Mayer, Freie Universität, Berlin
"This thoughtful and thought-provoking book examines the
dynamics and consequences of neoliberal policies in the unstable
geography of contemporary cities. The book synthesizes a range of
current explorations of urban space and neoliberal ideology, and
ends with a new and coherent conceptualization of what is happening
on the ground around us." Peter Marcuse, Professor of Urban
Planning, Columbia University
"Brenner and Theodore have done an excellent job in bringing
together an innovative collection of work on urban restructuring -
a collection that combines some of the most interesting insights
from critical political economy and radical geography to explain
important aspects of the spatial reconfiguration of capitalism
since the 1970s." Stephen Gill, Professor of Political Science,
University of York, Toronto
"Brenner and Theodore have put together a stimulating series of
investigations that explore how recent economic strategies, state
agendas and spatial logics produce urban landscapes marked by
striking levels of inequality and social exclusion. This collection
provides a theoretically sophisticated and politically incisive
examination of the ways in which restructuring cities have become
central to the new geographies of power."
William Sites, University of Chicago, author of Remaking
New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban
Community
"This is a stimulatimg text, the ambitious designs of which
provide a rich theoretical resource" Peter Sunley, University of
Edinburgh for Progress in Human Geography
"Exploring 'the spaces of neoliberalism' is
clearly a project whose time has come. The current collection of
papers does an excellent job in laying out some of the substantive
issues involved, the nature of the changes that the neoliberal
agenda has conditioned, and the conflicts that its imposition has
generated." Environment and Planning D: Society and
Space
exploration of the macropolitical realignment and ongoing spatial
restructuring that have taken place since the 1970s. This is
cutting-edge urban research: not only students of contemporary
cities and their institutional geographies, but municipal policy
makers as well as activists concerned with reshaping cities towards
more democratic and socially just ends will find this collection
indispensable." Margit Mayer, Freie Universität, Berlin
"This thoughtful and thought-provoking book examines the
dynamics and consequences of neoliberal policies in the unstable
geography of contemporary cities. The book synthesizes a range of
current explorations of urban space and neoliberal ideology, and
ends with a new and coherent conceptualization of what is happening
on the ground around us." Peter Marcuse, Professor of Urban
Planning, Columbia University
"Brenner and Theodore have done an excellent job in bringing
together an innovative collection of work on urban restructuring -
a collection that combines some of the most interesting insights
from critical political economy and radical geography to explain
important aspects of the spatial reconfiguration of capitalism
since the 1970s." Stephen Gill, Professor of Political Science,
University of York, Toronto
"Brenner and Theodore have put together a stimulating series of
investigations that explore how recent economic strategies, state
agendas and spatial logics produce urban landscapes marked by
striking levels of inequality and social exclusion. This collection
provides a theoretically sophisticated and politically incisive
examination of the ways in which restructuring cities have become
central to the new geographies of power."
William Sites, University of Chicago, author of Remaking
New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban
Community
"This is a stimulatimg text, the ambitious designs of which
provide a rich theoretical resource" Peter Sunley, University of
Edinburgh for Progress in Human Geography
"Exploring 'the spaces of neoliberalism' is
clearly a project whose time has come. The current collection of
papers does an excellent job in laying out some of the substantive
issues involved, the nature of the changes that the neoliberal
agenda has conditioned, and the conflicts that its imposition has
generated." Environment and Planning D: Society and
Space
Neil Brenner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University. He is the co-editor with Bob Jessop, Martin Jones and Gordon MacLeod, of State / Space: A Reader forthcoming from Blackwell Publishing.Nik Theodore is Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Policy and Research Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
