New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question

New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question
ISBN-10
0190627182
ISBN-13
9780190627188
Series
New Urban Spaces
Category
Political Science
Pages
480
Language
English
Published
2019
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Neil Brenner

Description

Openings: the urban question as a scale question? -- Between fixity and motion: scaling the urban fabric -- Restructuring, rescaling and the urban question -- Global city formation and the rescaling of urbanization -- Cities and the political geographies of the "new" economy -- Competitive city-regionalism and the politics of scale -- Urban growth machines : but at what scale? -- A thousand layers: geographies of uneven development -- Planetary urbanization: mutations of the urban question -- Afterword: new spaces of urbanization

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