Neil Smith (geographer)

Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography and Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He received his B.Sc. from the University of St. Andrews, and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University where he studied with David Harvey. Formerly, the Robert Lincoln McNeil Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, he has also taught at Columbia University and at Rutgers University, where he was chair of the geography department from 1991 to 1994 and a senior fellow at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. His research explores the broad intersection between space, nature, social theory and history.

[edit] Main 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.
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)
1991 Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. Basil Blackwell.
1986 Gentrification of the City, George, Allen and Unwin, London (edited with Peter Williams)

Articles

2003 (forthcoming) Foreword, pp vii-xxiii in Urban Revolution by Henri Lefebvre. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
2003 (forthcoming) "Geographies of Substance" in Envisioning Human Geography, Paul Cloke, Philip Crang, and Mark Goodwin, eds.
forthcoming: "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): 434-457. 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.