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This is the first volume to analyse systematically the role of neoliberalism in contemporary processes of urban restructuring. Drawing upon cutting-edge theoretical work within radical geography, critical urban studies, neo-marxian state theory and critical social theory, contributions by leading scholars map the spaces of neoliberalism that have been forged and contested within contemporary North American and Western European cities. The volume synthesizes a variety of new theoretical approaches to the critical analysis of contemporary urban transformations while also providing new case study…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This is the first volume to analyse systematically the role of neoliberalism in contemporary processes of urban restructuring. Drawing upon cutting-edge theoretical work within radical geography, critical urban studies, neo-marxian state theory and critical social theory, contributions by leading scholars map the spaces of neoliberalism that have been forged and contested within contemporary North American and Western European cities. The volume synthesizes a variety of new theoretical approaches to the critical analysis of contemporary urban transformations while also providing new case study material on the restructuring of urban policy, urban space and urban socio-political struggles in major North American and Western European cities.
Autorenporträt
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.
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"...a fantastic, empirically rich and theoretically innovative,exploration of the macropolitical realignment and ongoing spatialrestructuring that have taken place since the 1970s. This iscutting-edge urban research: not only students of contemporarycities and their institutional geographies, but municipal policymakers as well as activists concerned with reshaping cities towardsmore democratic and socially just ends will find this collectionindispensable." Margit Mayer, Freie Universität, Berlin

"This thoughtful and thought-provoking book examines thedynamics and consequences of neoliberal policies in the unstablegeography of contemporary cities. The book synthesizes a range ofcurrent explorations of urban space and neoliberal ideology, andends with a new and coherent conceptualization of what is happeningon the ground around us." Peter Marcuse, Professor of UrbanPlanning, Columbia University

"Brenner and Theodore have done an excellent job in bringingtogether an innovative collection of work on urban restructuring -a collection that combines some of the most interesting insightsfrom critical political economy and radical geography to explainimportant aspects of the spatial reconfiguration of capitalismsince the 1970s." Stephen Gill, Professor of Political Science,University of York, Toronto

"Brenner and Theodore have put together a stimulating series ofinvestigations that explore how recent economic strategies, stateagendas and spatial logics produce urban landscapes marked bystriking levels of inequality and social exclusion. This collectionprovides a theoretically sophisticated and politically incisiveexamination of the ways in which restructuring cities have becomecentral to the new geographies of power."
William Sites, University of Chicago, author of RemakingNew York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of UrbanCommunity

"This is a stimulatimg text, the ambitious designs of whichprovide a rich theoretical resource" Peter Sunley, University ofEdinburgh for Progress in Human Geography

"Exploring 'the spaces of neoliberalism' isclearly a project whose time has come. The current collection ofpapers does an excellent job in laying out some of the substantiveissues involved, the nature of the changes that the neoliberalagenda has conditioned, and the conflicts that its imposition hasgenerated." Environment and Planning D: Society andSpace
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