Areas of Research/Interest: Global and comparative urban, metropolitan, suburban and regional development; critical urban theory, sociospatial theory and state theory; comparative-historical political economy and sociology; globalization studies; neoliberalization.

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Select Publications:

	The Global Cities Reader.  Co-edited with Roger Keil.  New York and London: Routledge, 2006. Web link
	New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood.  Oxford and New York:Oxford University Press, 2004. Web link:  http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927006-6
	State/Space: A Reader.  Co-edited with Bob Jessop, Martin Jones and Gordon MacLeod. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2003. Web link:  http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0631230343&site=1
	Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America.  Co-edited with Nik Theodore. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2002. Web link:  http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=1405101059&site=1

"Urban governance and the production of new state spaces in western Europe, 1960-2000," Review of International Political Economy, 11:3, August (2004): 447-488.  Click here to read.

With Nik Theodore:  "Cities and the geographies of 'actually existing neoliberalism'," Antipode, 34, 3 (2002): 356-386.  Reprinted in: N. Brenner and N. Theodore eds., Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America.  Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2002, 2-32. Click here to read.

"Stereotypes, Archetypes and Prototypes:  Three Uses of Superlatives in Contemporary Urban Studies," City & Community, 3 (2004), 205-218.  Click here to read.

“Glocalization’ as a state spatial strategy:  urban entrepreneurialism and the new politics of uneven development in western Europe,”  in Jamie Peck and Henry Yeung eds., Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives.  Sage: London and Thousand Oaks, 2003, 197-215. Click here to read.

“Metropolitan Institutional Reform and the Rescaling of State Space in Contemporary Western Europe.” European Urban and Regional Studies, 10 (2003), 297-325. Click here to read.

“Decoding the Newest ‘Metropolitan Regionalism’ in the USA: A Critical Overview.”  Cities: International Journal of Policy and Planning, 19, 1, (2002): 3-21. Click here to read.

“The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration.” Progress in Human Geography, 15, 4 (2001): 525-548.  Click here to read.

“World city theory, globalization and the comparative-historical method: reflections on Janet Abu-Lughod’s interpretation of contemporary urban restructuring.” Urban Affairs Review, 36, 6 (2001): 124-147. Click here to read.

"State theory in the political conjuncture:  Henri Lefebvre's 'Comments on a new state form'," Antipode 33, 5 (2001):  783-808.  Click here to read.

“Building ‘Euro-regions’: locational politics and the political geography of neoliberalism in post-unificationGermany/” European Urban and Regional Studies, 7, 4 (2000): 317-343.  Click here to read.

“The urban question as a scale question: reflections on Henri Lefebvre, urban theory and the politics of scale.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 24, 2 (2000): 361-378.  Click here to read.

“Beyond state-centrism? Space, territoriality and geographical scale in globalization studies.” Theory and Society, 28, 2 (1999): 39-78.  Click here to read.

“Globalization as reterritorialization: the re-scaling of urban governance in the European Union.” Urban Studies, 36, 3 (1999): 431-451. Click here to read.

"Lokale Politik und Stadtenwicklung nach dem Fordismus: Möglichkeiten und Beschrankungen." co-authored with Susanne Heeg in Kurswechsel: Zeitschrift fur gesellschafts-, wirtschafts-, und unweltpolitische Alternative. Heft 2/99. Click here to read.

“Between fixity and motion: accumulation, territorial organization and the historical geography of spatial scales.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 16, 5 (1998): 459-481.  Click here to read.

“Global cities, ‘glocal’ states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporaryEurope.” Review of International Political Economy, 5, 1 (1998): 1-37.  Click here to read.

“Global, fragmented, hierarchical: Henri Lefebvre's geographies of globalization.” Public Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp 137-169.1997.  Click here to read.

“Leistungfähige Länder, konkurrenzfahige Stadtregionen.” co-authored with Susanne Heeg in Informationen zur Raumentwicklung. Heft 10.1998. Click here to read.

“State Territorial Restructuring and the Production of Spatial Scale: Urban and Regional Planning in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1960-1990.”  Political Geography. Vol. 16, No.4, pp 273-306.1997. Click here to read.

Globalisierung und Reterritorialisierung: Städte, Staaten, und die Politik der räumlichen Redimensionierung im heutigen Europa. WeltTrends. No.17. Winter 1997. Click here to read.

“Foucault's new functionalism.” Theory and Society, 23, 5 (1994): 679-708. Click here to read.