Neil Brenner is Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology, Chair of the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU), and Director of the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago. Brenner’s writing and teaching focus on the challenges of reinventing our understanding of urban life under conditions of intensifying planetary environmental crisis. Previous books include New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question (Oxford, 2019), Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays (Birkhäuser, 2016) New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood (Oxford, 2004), and the edited volume Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis, 2014).