Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays

Neil Brenner

Published by Birkhäuser 2016

Critique of Urbanization

Selected Essays

Neil Brenner

Volume 156 in the series Bauwelt Fundamente

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035607956

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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

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Prof. Neil Brenner, Graduate School of Design, Havard University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface Martín Arboleda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
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Urban Strategies, Urban Ideologies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Students, teachers and researchers in the field of urbanism
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 40

eBook

Published: December 5, 2016
ISBN: 9783035607956

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Published: November 21, 2016
ISBN: 9783035610116