Neil Brenner: New Urban Spaces (3CT New Book Salon)

Neil Brenner is a critical urban theorist, sociologist, and geographer whose work opens new theories of urbanization with relevance across the social sciences, spatial humanities, design disciplines, and environmental studies. Here, Brenner joins 3CT co-director Shannon Lee Dawdy in conversation about his book, "New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question," as well as his ongoing project on planetary urbanization. The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing across the planet. In his most recent book, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question (Oxford, 2019), Brenner argues that understanding these mutations of urban life requires not only concrete research, but new theories of urbanization. -- Neil Brenner is Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. Brenner’s most recent books are New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question (Oxford, 2019) and Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays (Bauwelt Fundamente, 2016), as well as the edited volume Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis, 2014). He previously served as Professor of Urban Theory, Harvard GSD, and as Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies, New York University. -- Presented by 3CT and co-sponsored by the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. -- Recorded January 28, 2021. All rights to the words and ideas expressed in this video are retained exclusively by their authors. If you would like to reuse a segment of this video, please contact the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory to request permission.