Book: Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space

Keller Easterling offers a brilliant critique on the managerial science of urban planning and examines the implications of infrastructure space created on generic formulas. Extrastate urban space, which refers to the space beyond the reach of state jurisdictions, has become prevalent throughout China in the form of various free trade zones, for which Easterling devotes significant analysis. She argues that because the areas operate under authorities independent form domestic law for so-called "incentivized urbanism," the sites become the headquarters for the most global power players.