Table of Contents

Preface
1: Introduction: Cities, States, and the 'Explosion of Spaces'
2: The Globalization Debates: Opening up to New Spaces?
3: The State Spatial Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis
4: Urban Governance and the Nationalization of State Space: Political Geographies of Spatial Keynesianism
5: Interlocality Competition as a State Project: Urban Locational Policy and the Rescaling of State Space
6: Alternative Rescaling Strategies and the Future of New State Spaces
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Date of Birth: 1969
Ph.D, Political Science, University of Chicago (1999); M. A. Geography, University of California Los Angeles (1995); M. A. Political Science, University of Chicago (1994); B. A. Philosophy, Yale, Summa Cum Laude (1991).
Co-editor with Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod: State/Space: A Reader (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2003).
Co-editor with Nik Theodore: Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America. (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2002).
Has written numerous refereed journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, review essays; has co-guest edited two special issues of 'Antipode'; has translated work by Henri Lefbvre and Klaus Ronneberger.
Forthcoming:
Co-edited with Roger Keil: The Global Cities Reader (New York and London: Routledge, 2005)
Proposal under consideration by Temple University Press:
With Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod: The New Political Economy of Scale

Reviews

Honourable Mention Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award 2005, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association For a long time, analysts of capitalism laid out their explanations as if space did not matter. Radical geographers, city planners, and students of popular politics then began complaining about the neglect of space, and setting concrete studies of urban change in the context of abstractly framed geographic theories. Neil Brenner takes the whole discussion a step farther, bringing together a knowledgeable critique and synthesis of previous thinking about 'state spaces,' important new ideas about regional policy under today's capitalism, and deeply documented comparisons of European regions. Students of political processes have much to learn from this book. Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University Neil Brenner brings together the cutting edges of the new economic and political geographies to produce a creatively transdisciplinary geopolitical economy of the territorial state and the re-scaling of the contemporary world. This is critically spatialized social science at its best: astutely comprehensive in its theoretical scope, pointedly insightful in its assessment of European planning practices, and richly empirical in its argument and analysis. The scales of accomplishment are enormous. Edward W. Soja, Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research Brenner brilliantly traces how urban governance has become one of the strategic sites for fundamental transformations of national statehood. The book takes us to analytic zones we did not know existed. Great and original. Saskia Sassen, Author, Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization.