Jamie Peck's new article, "Neoliberal Suburbanism: Frontier Space", has been published in Urban Geography. The research for the paper was supported by the "Global Suburbanisms" Major Collaborative Research Initiative under the Governance project, and an earlier draft was presented at the Suburban Governance Workshop held in Leipzig in the summer of 2011.

From the abstract:

The paper selectively explores American suburbia, real and imagined, with a par- ticular emphasis on the evolution of neoliberal thought and practice. It develops the argument that an inchoate vision of suburbia has been central to popularized versions of Chicago School economics since the 1950s, just as the suburbs have been privileged sites for the rollout of actu- ally existing forms of neoliberal governance. While a distinctive political economy is associated with the American suburbs (suburban governance), in macroregulatory terms, suburbanization has also enabled a centrifugal politics of devolution and decentralization, exclusion, and secession, with wide and deep implications for politics, policy, and practice (urban subgovernance).

Peck, Jamie. (2011). Neoliberal Suburbanism: Frontier Space. Urban Geography, 32(6), pp. 884-919.  DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.32.6.884.