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Combining innovative theorizing with radical critique, Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi rethink the strategic role of cities, the stakes in transformative politics, and the meaning of the urban field in the era of technocapitalism. -- Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia In a much needed critique of techno-monopoly capitalism and its urban ramifications, The Urban Field offers an astute political economy that parses out the role of tech companies and the state upon an array of affective social and political worlds. Drawing upon an array of theoretical interventions around the devastating powers of technocapitalism, Moisio and Rossi also offer their own unique perspectives to the urban field – a space which encompasses a range of domains including labour, human capital, startup economies and governmentality. Not only does this book illuminate how techno-monopolism functions in the day-to-day, but it also importantly helps us understand how particular moments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have led us to this contemporary conjuncture. -- Erin McElroy, University of Washington, author of Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times

Combining innovative theorizing with radical critique, Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi rethink the strategic role of cities, the stakes in transformative politics, and the meaning of the urban field in the era of technocapitalism. -- Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia

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Sami Moisio is Professor of Spatial Planning and Policy in the Department of Geosciences and Geography, and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki. His recent book, Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy won the 2019 Regional Studies Association Book Award. Ugo Rossi is Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila. He is the author of Cities in Global Capitalism (2017).

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