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Neil Brenner
Brenner lecturing at Columbia GSAPP, 2015
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Occupation(s)Sociologist, Urban theorist, Geographer, Critical theorist
Known forState/space theory
TitleLucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Chicago
Academic background
Education
ThesisGlobal Cities, Glocal States: State Re-scaling and the Remaking of Urban Governance in the European Union (1999)
Doctoral advisorWilliam H. Sewell Jr.
InfluencesHenri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Edward Soja
Academic work
School or traditionMarxist geography; Critical geography
InstitutionsNew York University (1999–2011)
Harvard Graduate School of Design (2011–2020)
University of Chicago (2020–present)
Doctoral studentsDorit Geva

Neil Brenner (born 1969) is an American urban theorist and academic holding the title of Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Chicago.[1] He previously served as Professor of Urban Theory and Director of Urban Theory Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and as Professor of Sociology at New York University. He has also held previous visiting appointments at National University of Singapore, University of Amsterdam, Bard College, Maynooth University, University of Bristol, and University of Urbino.[2] He is a member of the American Sociological Association[3] and the Association of American Geographers.

He serves on the advisory and editorial board of 14 academic journals and has edited or authored more than 10 award-winning books. Brenner's works have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.[4]

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Authored books in English[edit]

  • New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood (2004)[9]
  • Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays (2016)[10]
  • New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question (2019)[11]

Authored books in other languages[edit]

  • La explosion de lo urbano [12]
  • Stato, spazio, urbanizzazione (2017)[13]
  • Teoría urbana crítica y políticas de escala (2017)[14]
  • Espaços da Urbanização: o urbano a partir da teoria crítica (2018)[15]
  • 城市，地域，星球：批判城市理论 / City, Territory, Planet: Studies in Critical Urban Theory (2020)[16]

Edited and co-edited books[edit]

  • Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (2014)
  • Cities for People, not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City (2011)
  • Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World (2009)
  • The Global Cities Reader (2006)
  • State/Space: A Reader (2003)
  • Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America (2002)

Pamphlets[edit]

  • "The Afterlives of Neoliberalism" (2012)[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Directory". The University of Chicago Division of the Social Sciences. Neil Brenner. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  2. ^ "Neil Brenner".
  3. ^ "Newsletter of the Community and Urban Sociology Section" (PDF). CUSS News. American Sociological Association. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Neil Brenner CV" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Neil Brenner, "The Urbanization Question, or, the Field Formerly Known as Urban Studies"". Harvard GSD. Harvard GSD. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Neil Brenner". Holcim Foundation. Holcim Foundation. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  7. ^ Pfänder, Christina. "Initiative for liveable cities". Alumniportal Deutschland. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  8. ^ Brenner, Neil (1999). "Globalisation as Reterritorialisation: The Re-scaling of Urban Governance in the European Union". Urban Studies. 36 (3): 431–451. doi:10.1080/0042098993466. S2CID 59520104. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  9. ^ Brenner, Neil (September 9, 2004). New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191699450. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  10. ^ Brenner, Neil (2016). Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783035607956. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  11. ^ Brenner, Neil (2019). New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190627188. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  12. ^ (2017)Brenner, Neil (2016). "La explosion de lo urbano". Investigaciones Geográficas (98). Santiago de Chile: ARQ ediciones. doi:10.14350/rig.59873. S2CID 146363836. Retrieved 27 February 2023. (2016)
  13. ^ Brenner, Neil (2017). Stato, spazio, urbanizzazione. Milan: Guerini Scientifica. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  14. ^ Brenner, Neil (2017). Teoría urbana crítica y políticas de escala. Barcelona: Icaria. ISBN 978-84-9888-735-8. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  15. ^ Brenner, Neil (2018). Espaços da Urbanização: o urbano a partir da teoria crítica (PDF). Letra Capital. ISBN 978-85-7785-627-5. Retrieved 27 February 2023. (2018)
  16. ^ Brenner, Neil (2020). 城市，地域，星球：批判城市理论 / City, Territory, Planet: Studies in Critical Urban Theory. Beijing: Commercial Publishers. ISBN 978-7-100-16551-8. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  17. ^ Brenner, Neil (2012). "The Afterlives of Neoliberalism". London: Bedford Press / Architectural Association. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
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