批判都市研究近年成為重要的都市理論之一。本文將藉由Neil Brenner的學術發展到全域都市化對於資本主義存續的觀點，試圖釐清其學術貢獻、爭辯以及未來在臺灣研究展望的可能。作為當代都市研究最重要的理論者之一，Brenner以Lefebvre式的馬克思主義者視角出發，認為都市化與資本主義的緊密發展是伴隨著資本主義國家空間的轉化、新自由主義城市發展。同時，藉由全域都市化理論的提出，他也近指出全球化以及氣候變遷下，此概念能夠全面的、批判性的理解資本主義的空間組織與變遷動力的知識架構。在闡述Brenner的學術核心理論觀點之後，本文也探討Brenner參與的四場學術辯論，藉以錨定並彰顯Brenner觀點的特殊與重要性，之後藉由相關的經驗研究，來進一步指出全域都市化所指涉的核心。最後，本文嘗試提出全域都市化作為當前資本主義發展的主要動力與目前的應用，並以此對應臺灣脈絡提出未來展望的研究方向。

This study reviews Neil Brenner's scholarly development and summarizes his academic contributions, debates and possibilities for future application in Taiwan. As one of the most important theorists in contemporary urban studies, Brenner argues, from a Lefebvrian Marxist perspective, that urbanization has a material, imaginative and practical relationship with the development of capitalism, and then presents planetary urbanization in the context of the spatial transformation of the capitalist state, neoliberal urban development, and recent globalization and climate change. This concept is a comprehensive and critical intellectual framework for understanding the spatial organization of capitalism and the dynamics of change. After presenting Brenner's core theoretical perspectives, this work also examines three academic debates in which Brenner participated in order to anchor and highlight the specificity and importance of his perspectives, and concludes from relevant empirical studies that the objects of research on planetary urbanization extend to primary industries, infrastructure and urban hinterlands, which are neglected by conventional urban studies. Finally, this study suggests possible directions and issues for research into planetary urbanization, which is a major driving force of current capitalist development, in the context of Taiwan, and highlights the analytical merits of such a perspective.