The contributions to this volume were initially presented at a small conference on Neoliberalism and the city, sponsored by the Center for Urban Economic Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, September 2001.

Originally published as a special issue of Antipode, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: From the "new localism" to the spaces of neoliberalism -- The urbanization of neoliberalism: theoretical debates. Cities and the geographies of "actually existing neoliberalism" -- Neoliberalizing space -- Neoliberalism and socialisation in the contemporary city: opposites, complements and instabilities -- New globalism, new urbanism: gentrification as global urban strategy -- Cities and state restructuring: pathways and contradictions. Liberalism, neoliberalism, and urban governance: a state-theoretical perspective -- Excavating the logic of British urban policy: neoliberalism as the "crisis of crisis-management" -- "The city is dead, long live the Net": harnessing European interurban networks for a neoliberal agenda -- Extracting value from the city: neoliberalism and urban redevelopment -- New geographies of power, exclusion and injustice. Neoliberal urbanization in Europe: large-scale urban development projects and the new urban policy -- "Common-sense" neoliberalism: progressive conservative urbanism in Toronto, Canada -- From urban entrepreneurialism to a "revanchist city"? On the spatial injustices of Glasgow's renaissance.

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