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Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays
Neil Brenner
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Paperback. Connects the critique of design theory and practice to a range of issues in urban theory, urban political economy and radical geography. The author develops concepts and methods to critique contemporary forms of urbanization, understand contemporary urbanization, and looks at the limits and possibilities of contemporary forms of urban knowledge. Series: Bauwelt Fundamente. Num Pages: 296 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, 25 black & white halftones, 15 black & white line drawing. BIC Classification: AMVD; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 140. Weight in Grams: 466.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Birkhauser
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Bauwelt Fundamente
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, Switzerland
ISBN
9783035610116
SKU
V9783035610116
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About Neil Brenner
Prof. Neil Brenner, Graduate School of Design, Havard University
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