What is the Urban Now? 1: On the Urban in the Capitalocene: Neil Brenner (Chicago) with Samuel Zipp

Celebrating 50 Years of Urban Studies at Brown, the 2022-2023 What is the Urban Now? lecture series features conversations between renowned urbanists and Brown Urban Studies faculty about the critical questions facing cities and urban thinking today. Our guest on September 20th, 2022, for the first event in the series, was Neil Brenner, principal of the Urban Theory Lab and Lucy Flower Professor of Sociology at University of Chicago, who talked with Urban Studies program director Samuel Zipp about planetary urbanization, climate change, and redrawing our understanding of urban form for future challenges. Brown University September 20, 2022