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

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• 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.

Neil Brenner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University. He is the co-editor with Bob Jessop, Martin Jones and Gordon MacLeod, of State / Space: A Reader forthcoming from Blackwell Publishing.Nik Theodore is Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Policy and Research Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago.