30年來，新竹縣市人口成長30萬，成長率為全國之首，也是全國最年輕的區域。全球化科技生產聚落，竹科、清交大與工研院人員的龐大居住需求，引致城鄉交界都市蔓延與公共設施用地窘迫。本文以Brenner的「星球都市化」理論視角來觀察—新竹—科技成長的新興都會區域。在全球新自由主義下，模糊化的都市－非都市空間劃分，同時重塑都市公共領域，並重新結構國家（state）與市民社會（civil society）。總的來說，科技社群與產業群聚的開放創新網絡是新竹都會區域互動與創新的重要特徵，然而，這種科技創新開放氛圍，難以相容於技術官僚與藍圖式規劃體制的封閉性，形成新竹地區特殊的星球都市化現象。在不間斷地跨尺度/領域的社會生產和空間轉化過程中，我們需要新的視角來理解社會空間組織，面對都市生活的未來。

These three decades, the populations in Hsinchu metropolitan have been growth three hundred thousand, the fastest growth rate and the youngest region in Taiwan. The globalization of scientific and technological production settlements, the huge housing demand of the staff of science park, university and the ITRI, etc. has led to urban sprawl and the embarrassment for public infrastructure. This paper observes Hsinchu, an emerging metropolis, with technological growth from the perspective of Brenner's theory of "planetary urbanization". Under global neoliberalism, the blurring of urban-rural spatial divisions simultaneously reshapes the urban public sphere and restructures the state and civil society. In general, the open innovation network of scientific and technological communities and industrial clusters is an important feature of interaction and innovation in the Hsinchu metropolitan area. However, this milieu of scientific and technological innovation is hard to be compatible with the conservativeness of technocrats and blueprint planning systems in Hsinchu forming a special planetary urbanization. In a nutshell, in the continuous process of social production and spatial transformation across scales in space and time, we need new insight into socio-spatial formation patterns in the future of urban life.