Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization
Berlin: Jovis, 2026.
“The climate refuge city: a new urban imaginary in formation”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2026): https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.70100
“Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon”
“Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon.” Antipode 58, no. 2 (2026)
“Beyond the Operational Landscape”
in Collective Landscape Futures, ed. Anushka Athique, Duncan Goodwin, and Ed Wall (London: Routledge, 2025), 186–200.
“Environments of urbanization”
Urban Political Ecology, 2, 1 (2026): 14-29.
“Saving Agrafa: A rooted defense of wildness in the age of climate change”
Degrowth Journal 3 (2026)
“The flammable city: Infrastructure, temporalities, and social struggles in Dock Sud, Buenos Aires”
Urban Studies, 63, 4 (2026): 720-736.
“On Commonist Urbanization: Autonomy and Centrality Within and Beyond the City”
Urban Studies 63, 1 (2026): 156–72.
“The Hidden Abodes of Capitalist Space: Rethinking Crisis and the Built Environment”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2026): in press.
Environments of Planetary Urbanization
Berlin: Jovis, 2025.
“The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation”
Development and Change 56, 4–5 (2025): 668–728.
“Roadkill: the extended urbanization of cannibal capitalism in the Peruvian Amazon”
“Roadkill: The Extended Urbanization of Cannibal Capitalism in the Peruvian Amazon.” Urban Geography (2025): 1–24.
“‘Closing the Carbon Loop’: Climate Policy Discourses and the Material Politics of Municipal Waste-to-Biofuel Programs”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2025).
“What is Radical Planning History?”
Planning Perspectives 40, 4 (2025): 833–41.
“Planet at the End of the City: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 50, 1 (2025): 240-255.
Review – Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab by Navyug Gill
Journal of Agrarian Change 25, no. 4 (2025).
“A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations”
Dialogues in Human Geography, May (2025): 1-21.
“‘MORTAL FEAST’: Cannibal Capitalism Meets Covid-19 in the Urban Peruvian Amazon”
‘MORTAL FEAST’: Cannibal Capitalism Meets COVID-19 in the Urban Peruvian Amazon.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 49, no. 2 (2025): 229–245.
“Disintegration highway: Towards a psychogeography of planetary urban breakdown”
“Disintegration Highway: Towards a Psychogeography of Planetary Urban Breakdown.” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 46, no. 1 (2024): 138–156.
“The Spatial Politics of an Urban Carbon Accounting Standard”
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 8, no. 2 (2025): 700-720.
“Calculative Infrastructures of Net Zero Urban Governance: A transformative science-based agenda or reductive territorial project?”
Urban Studies 62, no. 8 (2025): 1691-1705.
Miami in the Anthropocene: Rising Seas and Urban Resilience
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025
“History and Theory in the Time of Capital: On Banaji’s Method”
新しい都市空間 都市理論とスケール問題 / New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question (Japanese translation)
Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 2024.
“Constitutive Outsides or Hidden Abodes?: Totality and Ideology in Critical Urban Theory”
Urban Studies 61, 10 (2024): 1827-1848.
“Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate”
Theory, Culture & Society 41, 1 (2024): 39-58.
“Spatializing Social Reproduction Theory: Integrating State Space and the Urban Fabric”
Review of International Political Economy 31, 3 (2024): 955-977.
The Global Industrial Feedlot Matrix: A Metabolic Monstrosity
in Jeffrey S. Nesbit and Charles Waldheim eds., Technical Lands: A Critical Primer (Berlin: Jovis, 2023), 132-155.
“Fetichismo morfológico: informalidad y estigmatización en la historia del urbanismo”
Ciudad y Territorio 55 (2023): 7–26.
“Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world”
“Apocalyptic Urban Surrealism in the City at the End of the World.” Urban Studies 60, no. 4 (2023): 718–733
“Fanon’s Mobilities: Race, Space, Recognition”
Antipode 54, 4 (2023): 1128-1151.
“A large-scale dataset for training deep learning segmentation and tracking of extreme weather”
Scientific Data 12, no. 1 (2025): 1151.
“Background Check: Spatiality and Relationality in Nancy Fraser’s Expanded Conception of Capitalism”
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55, 5 (2023): 1091-1113.
Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
“Black Scale: Constructing “Haunted” Overpasses as Relational Methodologies”
“Planetary Urbanization and the Political Ecologies of Emergent Infectious Disease”
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 54, 5 (2022): 867-910.
La revolución urbana: investigación y proyecto (Introduction to Henri Lefebvre’s The Urban Revolution)
Introduction to the new Spanish edition of Henri Lefebvre, La revolución urbana (Madrid: Alianza, 2022), 9–36.
“Publicity”
The Architectural Review, iss. 1493 (2022): 6–11.
“In What Sense Ruralization?”
Dialogues in Human Geography 12, no. 2 (2022): 208–12.
Preliminary Notes on the Late-Capitalist Skyscraper as a Morphology of Enclosure
In Nature of Enclosure, edited by Jeffrey S. Nesbit (Barcelona: Actar, 2022), 196–205.
Environmental Speculations: Landscape Suburbanism Between Housing and Planning, 1920s-1940s
in Jeanne Haffner, ed., Landscapes of Housing: Design and Planning in the History of Environmental Thought (New York: Routledge: 2022): 100–121.
50 Species-Towns
Cambridge: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2022.
“Toward a Critique of Labor-in-Construction”
Non-Extractive Architecture: On Designing without Depletion. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2021, 157-178.
“Out in Space: Difference and Abstraction in Planetary Urbanization”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45, 4 (July 2021), 732–744.
“Postcolonizing planetary urbanization: Aníbal Quijano and an alternative genealogy of the urban”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45, 4 (2021): 663-678.
“(Race) War Machine, or, How a War Game Explains the Paranoid Geographies of Transpacific American Empire”
The Avery Review 53 (June 2021)
“Extended Urbanisation and the Agrarian Question: Convergences, Divergences and Openings”
Urban Studies 58, no. 6 (2021): 1097–119.
Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice
Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2021.
How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism
New York: Verso, 2020.
Anthropocene Back Loop: Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space
London: Open Humanities Press, 2020
“‘Wilderness and Utopia’: On Post-capitalist Urbanization and the Extraterrestrial Imaginary”
New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial (2020): 169–80.
“Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?”
Urban Studies, 57, 1 (2020): 2201-2221.
“Operational Landscapes: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene”
AD/Architectural Design, 90, 3 (2020): 22-31.
Review of Ross Exo Adams on Circulation & Urbanization
Antipode, January 31, 2020.
“The Greening Imaginary: Urbanized Nature in Germany’s Ruhr Region”
Theory and Society 48, 5 (2019): 645-669.
Antinomies of Space-Time Value: Fallowness, Planning, Speculation
in Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo, eds., New Geographies 10: Fallow (New York: Actar, 2019): 18–23
“From Spaces to Circuits of Extraction: Value in Process and the Mine/City Nexus”
Capitalism Nature Socialism 31, 3 (2020): 114-133.
Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial
Barcelona and New York: Actar Publishers, 2019.
New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question
New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
“Recombinant Urbanization: Agrarian-Urban Landed Property and Uneven Development in India”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43, 4 (2019): 617-632.
New Geographies 10: ‘Fallow’
Cambridge, Mass. and Barcelona: Harvard Graduate School of Design / Actar, 2019.
城市，地域，星球：批判城市理论 / City, Territory, Planet: Studies in Critical Urban Theory
Beijing: Commercial Publishers, 2019 (Chinese).
Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press: 2019.
“The Biopolitical Commons: A Revised Theory of Urban Land in the Age of Biopolitical Production”
Planning Theory 18, 4 (2019): 470-491.
“Debating Planetary Urbanization: For an Engaged Pluralism”
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36, 3 (2018): 570-590.
“Extracción en movimiento: circulación del capital, poder estatal y urbanización logística en el norte minero de Chile”
Investigaciones Geográficas 56 (2018): 3-26.
Extended Urbanization: Implications for Urban and Regional Theory
Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories (Cheltenham, Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2018), 332-345.
“Green and Gray: New Ideologies of Nature in Urban Sustainability Policy”
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 108, 4 (2018): 1038-1056.
Espaços de Urbanização: O urbano a partir da teoria crítica.
Observatório das Metrópoles series. Letra Capital Editora: Rio de Janeiro, 2018
New Geographies 09: Posthuman
Cambridge, Mass. and Barcelona: Graduate School of Design and Actar, 2018.
“Making the Earth Count: From Living Laboratory to Laboratory Planet”
Scapegoat: Architecture / Landscape / Political Economy, no. 11 (Winter / Spring 2018): 8–19.
“Mining Landscapes in the Guateng City-Region”
Johannesburg: Gauteng City-Region Observatory, 2018.
“Notes on Rurality or the Theoretical Usefulness of the Not-Urban”
The Avery Review, 2017.
“Martin Wagner in America: Planning and the Political Economy of Capitalist Urbanization”
Planning Perspectives 32 (2017): 481–502.
“La naturaleza como modo de existencia del capital”
Anthropologica 38 (2017): 145-176.
“From the city lens toward urbanisation as a way of seeing: country/city binaries on an urbanising planet”
Urban Studies 54, 1 (2017): 158-178.
“Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park: Environmental Hegemonies, Pedagogical Spaces and Integral State Formations”
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35, 1 (2017): 165-183.
Neil Brenner: Teoría Urbana Crítica y Políticas de Escala
Espacios criticos, 9 (Barcelona: Icaria, 2017).
“Market Monstrosity in Industrial Fishing”
Social & Cultural Geography, 19, 1 (2016): 120–138.
Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the US Department of Defense
“The Hinterland, Urbanized?”
AD / Architectural Design, July/August (2016): 118-127.
Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays
Basel and Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2016
Stato, spazio, urbanizzazione
Milan: Edizioni Angelo Guerini e Associati, 2016.
The Explosion of the Urban / La Explosión de la Urbano
Santiago de Chile: ARQ editiones, 2016.
“The Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40, 1 (2016): 1-17.
“Logistical Ecologies of the North American Operational Landscape”
MAS Context: Hidden, 28 (2015): 8-35.
“What World? Reframing the World as One City”
UrbanNext, 2015.
“Financialization, Totality and Planetary Urbanization in the Chilean Andes”
Geoforum, 67 (2015): 4-13.
“In the Nature of the Non-City: Expanded Infrastructural Networks and the Political Ecology of Planetary Urbanisation”
Antipode, 48, 2 (2016): 233-251.
“Combat, Caricature, and Critique in the Study of Planetary Urbanization”
Urban Theory Lab Working Paper (Cambridge, Mass.: Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 2015).
“Is Tactical Urbanism an Alternative to Neoliberal Urbanism?”
POST: notes on art in a global context (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2015).
“Capitalist Formations of Enclosure: Space and the Extinction of the Commons”
Antipode, 47 (2015): 999-1020.
Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization
Berlin: Jovis, 2015.
“Towards a New Epistemology of the Urban?”
CITY, 19, 2-3 (2015): 151–182.
“Outraged Spatialities: The Production of Public Space in the #SpanishRevolution”
ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 18 (2015): 90-103.
New Geographies 7: Geographies of Information
New Geographies 7: Geographies of Information (Cambridge, Mass.: Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 2015).
“The Urban Age in Question?”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38, 3 (2014): 731-755.
“On the Geographical Organization of World Urbanization”
MONU (2014): 4-11.
“Urbanizing Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39, 1 (2015): 16-27.
New Geographies 6: Grounding Metabolism
Cambridge, Mass: Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 2014.
“Central Park Against the Streets: The Enclosure of Public Space Cultures in Mid-Nineteenth Century New York”
Social & Cultural Geography, 15, 2 (2014): 151-171.
“Neil Brenner interviewed for Fulcrum magazine, AA London”
Fulcrum, 65, February 4 2013.
Urban Theory Without an Outside
in Neil Brenner ed., Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Berlin: Jovis, 2013), 14-35.
“Open City or the RIght to the City?”
TOPOS: The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, 85 (2013): 42-45.
“Theses on Urbanization”
Public Culture, 25, 1 (2013): 86-114.
Is the Mediterranean urban?
in Neil Brenner ed., Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Berlin: Jovis, 2013), 428-459.
Visualizing an Urbanized Planet—Materials
in Neil Brenner ed., Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Berlin: Jovis, 2013), 460-475.
Two Approaches to ‘World Management’: C. A. Doxiadis and R. B. Fuller
in Neil Brenner ed., Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Berlin: Jovis, 2013), 480-504.
“Logistics Islands: The Global Supply Archipelago and the Topologics of Defense”
Prism 3, no. 4 (2012): 54–75.
“Territory and the Governmentalisation of Social Reproduction: Parliamentary Enclosure and Spatial Rationalities in the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism”
Journal of Historical Geography, 38, 3 (2012): 209–219.
Planetary Urbanization
in Matthew Gandy ed., Urban Constellations (Berlin: Jovis, 2012), 10-13.
“City Becoming World: Nancy, Lefebvre, and the Global-Urban Imagination”
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30 (2012): 772-787.
“Assemblage Urbanism and the Challenges of Critical Urban Theory”
CITY, 15, 2 (2011): 225-240.
“What is Critical Urban Theory?”
CITY, 13, 2-3 (2009): 198-207.
New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.