Neil Smith (geographer)

Neil Smith
Born	1954 Leith, Scotland
Occupation	Geographer

Neil Smith was born 1954 in Leith, Scotland. he is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, at the Graduate Center department of the City University of New York. From 2008 he holds a twenty percent appointment as Sixth Century Professor of Geography and Social Theory, at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, his native land. Dr Smith earned his B.Sc. degree from the University of St. Andrews, and his Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied under David Harvey. Formerly, he was the Robert Lincoln McNeil Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and taught at Columbia and Rutgers universities, where, in this last, he was chair of the geography department (1991–94), and a senior fellow at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture.

Professor Smith’s research explores the broad intersections among space, nature, social theory, and history, including trenchant analysis of American Empire. In his major work of social theory (Smith 1984), he proposed that uneven spatial development is a function of the procedural logic of capital markets, thus, society and economies 'produce' space.^[1][2] Prof. Smith is credited with the convincing theories about the gentrification of the inner city as an economic process propelled by urban land prices and city land speculation — not a cultural preference for living in the city; his seminal article, "Toward a Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People" (1979) is cited more than 300 times.

Publications

Books

• 2006 The Politics of Public Space, Routledge (with Setha Low)
• 2005 Endgame of Globalization, Routledge
• 2002 American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. University of California Press. (winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography)
• 2000 Globalización: Transformaciones Urbanas, Precarización social Y Discriminación De Género, (with Cindi Katz). Nueva Grafica, S.A.L. La Cuesta, La Laguna
• 1996 The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. Routledge.
• 1994 Geography and Empire: Critical Studies in the History of Geography, Basil Blackwell, Oxford (edited with Anne Godlewska)
• 1986 Gentrification of the City, George, Allen and Unwin, London (edited with Peter Williams)
• 1984 Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. Basil Blackwell. 2nd Edition 1990.

Articles

• 2003 Foreword, pp vii-xxiii in Urban Revolution, by Henri Lefebvre. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• 2003 "Geographies of Substance" in Envisioning Human Geography, Paul Cloke, Philip Crang, and Mark Goodwin, eds.
• 2003 "Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban 'Regeneration' as Global Urban Strategy" in Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy, M. Fisher and G. Downey, eds.
• 2003 "Generalizing Gentrification" in Retours en ville, Catherine Bidou, Daniel Hiernaux, and Helene Riviere D'Arc, eds. Paris: Descartes & Cie. January.
• 2002 "Scale Bending" in Rethinking Scale, E. Sheppard and R. McMaster, eds.
• 2002 "Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Prenational and Postnational Europe" in State/Spaces.
• 2002 "Scales of Terror: The Manufacturing of Nationalism and the War for U.S. Globalism," pp 97–108 in After the World Trade Center, Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin, eds. New York: Routledge.
• 2002 "New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy," Antipode 34(3): 434-57. Reprinted in “Neo-Liberal Urbanism”, Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore, eds., Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell.
• 2002 "Ashes and Aftermath," Studies in Political Economy 67. Spring issue, pp 7–12.
• 2002 "Ashes and AFtermath," Philosophy & Geography 5(1): 9-12.
• 2002 "Kontinuum New York," pp 72–86 in Die Stadt Als Event, Regina Bittner, ed. Dessau, Bauhaus.
• 1979 "Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People" Journal of the American Planning Association 45:4, pp 538–48. DOI: 10.1080/01944367908977002

References

1. ^ Patrick Bond. 1999. What is Uneven Development?. In P.O'Hara (Ed), The Encyclopaedia of Political Economy, London, Routledge.
2. ^ Neil Smith, The Production of Space.

External links

• Faculty page, PhD Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
• Center for Place Culture and Politics
• Operation:City 2008, Keynote Address

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Date of birth	1954
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