“Preliminary Notes on the Nature—Urbanization—Science Fiction Nexus”
In Dearq 45, “Decentered City: Multispecies Design” (Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2026), 81–89.
Entornos de urbanización planetaria
Santiago, Chile: ARQ ediciones, 2026
“Too Monstrous to Fail? Cannibal Capitalism in the Urban Peruvian Amazon”
Wilson, Japhy. “Too Monstrous to Fail? Cannibal Capitalism in the Urban Peruvian Amazon.” Rethinking Marxism 37, no. 4 (2026): 479–95.
“Revisiting the “Articulation” of Capital and Difference: Louis Althusser, Stuart Hall, and the Built Environment”
Sociological Theory (2026): https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751261462130
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)
“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): https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.70074
Environments of Planetary Urbanization
Berlin: Jovis, 2025.
“Beyond the Operational Landscape”
in Collective Landscape Futures, ed. Anushka Athique, Duncan Goodwin, and Ed Wall (London: Routledge, 2025), 186–200.
“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.
“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
“A large-scale dataset for training deep learning segmentation and tracking of extreme weather”
Scientific Data 12, no. 1 (2025): 1151.
“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.
“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.
“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.
Extractivism and Universality: Inside an Uprising in the Amazon
London: Routledge, 2023.
“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.
“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.
Reality of Dreams: Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Yale Agrarian Studies Series (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021).
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.
“From Spaces to Circuits of Extraction: Value in Process and the Mine/City Nexus”
Capitalism Nature Socialism 31, 3 (2020): 114-133.
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.
“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
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.
“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.