Neil Brenner

Neil Brenner is Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology, Department of Sociology, and Chair of the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization (CEGU) at the University of Chicago. He previously served as Professor of Urban Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and as Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University.

Brenner is a critical urban theorist, sociologist and geographer who is interested in all aspects of research on cities and urbanization within the social sciences, the environmental humanities, the design disciplines and environmental studies. His writing and teaching focus on the theoretical, conceptual and methodological dimensions of urban questions, and on the challenges of reinventing our approach to urbanization in relation to the crises, contradictions and struggles of our time. Brenner has made influential contributions to scholarly debates on critical urban theory, the critique of capitalist urbanization, urban restructuring, state space, the political economy of rescaling, variegated neoliberalization and planetary urbanization.

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https://sociology.uchicago.edu/directory/neil-brenner

https://chicago.academia.edu/NeilBrenner