The urbanism of exception : the dynamics of global city building in the twenty-first century / Martin J. Murray, University of Michigan.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-389) and index

Global urbanism at the start of the twenty-first century -- The shape of cities to come : distended urban form as the template for global urbanism -- Spatial restructuring on a global scale : enclave urbanism and the fragmentation of urban space -- Cities as an assemblage of enclaves : realizing the expectations of late modernity -- Autonomous zones and the eclipse of territorial sovereignty -- Typologies of zones -- Hybrid zones and the breakdown of conventional modalities of urban governance -- An urbanism of exception.