Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe

Copyright © 2002 Blackwell Publishers Ltd

Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe

Editor(s): Neil Brenner, Nik Theodore

Published Online: 22 MAY 2012 02:18AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405101059

Online ISBN: 9781444397499

DOI: 10.1002/9781444397499

Series Editor(s): Noel Castree, Jamie Peck, Jane Wills

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This is the first volume to analyse systematically the role of neoliberalism in contemporary processes of urban restructuring.


  • Includes contributions from leading scholars in the fields of critical urban studies, radical geography and state theory.
  • Analyses the role of neoliberalism in contemporary processes of urban restructuring.
  • Synthesises a variety of new theoretical approaches to key issues in contemporary urban studies.
  • Incorporates new case study material of ongoing urban transformations in the USA, Canada, the UK and other Western European countries.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xii)

  2. Part 1: The Urbanization of Neoliberalism: Theoretical Debates

    1. Chapter 1

      Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” (pages 1–32)

      Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore

    2. Chapter 2

      Neoliberalizing Space (pages 33–57)

      Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell

    3. Chapter 3

      Neoliberalism and Socialisation in the Contemporary City: Opposites, Complements and Instabilities (pages 58–78)

      Jamie Gough

    4. Chapter 4

      New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy (pages 80–103)

      Neil Smith

  3. Part 2: Cities and State Restructuring: Pathways and Contradictions

    1. Chapter 5

      Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Governance: A State-Theoretical Perspective (pages 104–125)

      Bob Jessop

    2. Chapter 6

      Excavating the Logic of British Urban Policy: Neoliberalism as the “Crisis of Crisis-Management” (pages 126–147)

      Martin Jones and Kevin Ward

    3. Chapter 7

      “The City is Dead, Long Live the Net”: Harnessing European Interurban Networks for a Neoliberal Agenda (pages 148–171)

      Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard

    4. Chapter 8

      Extracting Value from the City: Neoliberalism and Urban Redevelopment (pages 172–193)

      Rachel Weber

  4. Part 3: New Geographies of Power, Exclusion and Injustice

    1. Chapter 9

      Neoliberal Urbanization in Europe: Large-Scale Urban Development Projects and the New Urban Policy (pages 194–229)

      Erik Swyngedouw, Frank Moulaert and Arantxa Rodriguez

    2. Chapter 10

      “Common-Sense” Neoliberalism: Progressive Conservative Urbanism in Toronto, Canada (pages 230–253)

      Roger Keil

    3. Chapter 11

      From Urban Entrepreneurialism to a “Revanchist City”? On the Spatial Injustices of Glasgow's Renaissance (pages 254–276)

      Gordon MacLeod

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      Index (pages 277–294)

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