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Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays

By Neil Brenner

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser
Year
2016
ISBN
9783035607956, 9783035610116
DOI
10.1515/9783035607956
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7273218 bytes)
Series
Bauwelt Fundamente; 156
Pages
296\296
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 12:10:21

Description

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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