Neil Smith (geographer)

Neil Robert Smith ( born June 18, 1954 in Leith, Scotland, † 28 September 2012 in New York City ) was a Scottish geographer, urban researcher and anthropologist. He was a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Smith was known primarily for his many contributions to the theoretical understanding of gentrification, as well as shaped by his theory of unequal spatial development, which he in his first monograph Uneven Development 1984 expounded Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. He was one of the most important representatives of the Radical Geography.

Career

Smith graduated from the University of St. Andrews for a Bachelor of Sciences and received his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University with David Harvey for Ph. D.. When Robert Lincoln McNeil Scholar, the exchange program at the University of Saint Andrews, he conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania. Later he taught at Columbia University and Rutgers University.

Work

His research focus were the intersections of space, nature, social theory and history. In his major work of 1984 Smith argues that unequal spatial development is a function of the procedural logic of the capital market was to " produce " society and economy that is space.

Smith published theories about gentrification of inner cities as economic, not social, process that is driven by the prices of urban subsoil and speculation, not. Due to a cultural preference for living in the city In his essay Toward a Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People of 1979 he exhibited for the first time before the so-called rent- gap theory, which he constantly further developed in subsequent years.

Publications

Monographs

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

Papers (selection)

  • Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People. In: Journal of the American Planning Association. 45:4, 1979, pp. 538-448. doi: 10.1080/01944367908977002
  • Scale Bending. In: E. Sheppard, R. McMaster (eds.): Rethinking Scale. , 2002.
  • Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Prenational and Post National Europe. In: State / Spaces. , 2002.
  • Scales of Terror: The Manufacturing of Nationalism and the War for U.S. Globalism. In: Sharon Zukin, Michael Sorkin (ed.): After the World Trade Center. Routledge, New York 2002, pp. 97-108.
  • New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy. In: Antipode. 34 (3), 2002, pp. 434-457. Reproduction: Neil Brenner, Nik Theodore (eds.): Neo- Liberal Urbanism. Basil Blackwell, Malden, MA 2002.
  • Ashes and Aftermath. In: Studies in Political Economy. 67 Spring issue, 2002, pp. 7-12.
  • Ashes and Aftermath. In: Philosophy & Geography. 5 (1 ), 2002, pp. 9-12.
  • Continuum New York. In: Regina Bittner (ed. ): The City as an event. Bauhaus Dessau, 2002, pp. 72-86.
  • Preface: Henri Lefebvre: Urban Revolution. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2003.
  • Geographies of Substance. In: Paul Cloke, Philip Crang, Mark Goodwin (ed.) Envisioning Human Geography. , 2003.
  • Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban " regeneration " as Global Urban Strategy. In: M. Fisher and G. Downey ( Eds.): Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy. , 2003.
  • Generalizing gentrification. In: Catherine Bidou, Daniel Hiernaux and Helene Riviere D' Arc (ed.): Retours en ville. Descartes & Cie. , Paris 2003.
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