Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 15-25

  Theodore, Nik ^a   Peck, Jamie ^b   Brenner, Neil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative destruction concept geographically uneven, socially regressive and politically volatile trajectories of institutional spatial change; Destructive and creative moments of neoliberal urbanization; Dynamic order, associated with mutating strategies of market rule; Institutionally destructive neoliberalisms, of 1980s superseded by new forms of neoliberal urbanization; Neoliberal ideology, open, competitive and "unregulated" markets liberated from state interference and actions of social collectivities; Neoliberal ideology, Utopian vision of market rule idealized conception of competitive individualism; Neoliberal restructuring projects, of three decades failing, sustainable capitalist growth; Neoliberal urbanism cities and the rule of markets; Neoliberal urbanization, urban spaces strategic roles in waves of neoliberalization; Neoliberalism, dominant political and ideological forms of capitalist globalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053338117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395105.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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