1 Openings: The Urban Question as a Scale Question? 2 Between Fixity and Motion: Scaling the Urban Fabric 3 Restructuring, Rescaling and the Urban Question 4 Global city formation and the rescaling of urbanization 5 Cities and the Political Geographies of the 'New' Economy 6 Competitive City-Regionalism and the Politics of Scale 7 Urban Growth Machines-But at What Scale? 8 A Thousand Layers: Geographies of Uneven Development 9 Planetary Urbanization: Mutations of the Urban Question 10 Afterword: New Spaces of Urbanization Bibliography Acknowledgements and sources Index

"Brenner's work will undoubtedly inspire future theorists of alter-urbanizations..." -- Julian B. Hartman, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, University of Arizona, The AAG Review of Books (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group) "New Urban Spaces is a landmark contribution to urban and regional studies. Through a rich, dense and provocative argument, Neil Brenner synthesizes over a decade-and-a-half's work on state rescaling, globalization and urban governance into a comprehensive and radical retheorization of urbanization" -- Jean-Paul D. Addie, Georgia State University, Regional Studies "Brenner's new book New Urban Spaces - Urban Theory and the Scale Question reads as a poignant and well-articulated (self-)critique of what the author sees as a dominant tendency in urban theory to envisage the urban and the rural in opposition to each other... [New Urban Spaces] offers a skillfully-wrought exploration by a leading scholar of urban theory into the multi-scalar realm of urbanity and its highly complex interpenetrations with state power..." -- David Leupold, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Eurasian Geography and Economics "Brenner's most recent monograph is a challenging, dense and surprising read that will likely reshape our understanding of the long-established scholarship of one of the world's finest contemporary urban theorists ... [The book offers] a fundamental contribution, both to recent and current debates focusing on the nature of urban theory per se, and more generally to a broader conceptualization of our role as urban scholars. It raises key questions around the changing positionality of urban scholars, and about whether we should lay our previous work to rest within its historical framing or instead constantly revisit it whilst we grapple with the changing (and unequal) realities around us." Michele Acuto, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) "New Urban Spaces is a landmark contribution to urban and regional studies. Through a rich, dense and provocative argument, Neil Brenner synthesizes over a decade-and-a-half's work on state rescaling, globalization and urban governance into a comprehensive and radical retheorization of urbanization... Brenner has provided a vital...statement on, and an incisive analytical instrument to cut through, the unfolding problematics of our planetary urban condition." -Jean-Paul D. Addie, Regional Studies

Selling point: Critiques and reformulates inherited approaches to urbanization Selling point: Synthesizes and extends the author's previous work on the rescaling of urbanization Selling point: Builds upon the influential perspective of French Marxist theorist Henri Lefebvre Selling point: Outlines a vision of urban theory that diverges sharply from mainstream approaches to urban science as well as influential strands of poststructuralist urban research

Neil Brenner is Professor of Urban Theory at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Brenner is among the most widely cited contemporary urban theorists. Previous books include New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood; Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (editor); and Critique of Urbanization. Brenner has made influential contributions to scholarly debates on critical urban theory, the critique of capitalist urbanization, urban restructuring, state space, the political economy of rescaling, variegated neoliberalization and planetary urbanization.

Selling point: Critiques and reformulates inherited approaches to urbanization Selling point: Synthesizes and extends the author's previous work on the rescaling of urbanization Selling point: Builds upon the influential perspective of French Marxist theorist Henri Lefebvre Selling point: Outlines a vision of urban theory that diverges sharply from mainstream approaches to urban science as well as influential strands of poststructuralist urban research