Neil Smith (geographer)

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Neil Robert Smith (born June 18, 1954 in Leith , Scotland , † September 29, 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 best known for his numerous contributions to the theoretical understanding of gentrification processes , as well as the theory of uneven spatial development that he shaped, which he presented in 1984 in his first monograph Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space . He was one of the most important representatives of Radical Geography .

Career

Smith graduated from the University of St. Andrews for Bachelor of Sciences and was at the Johns Hopkins University in David Harvey for Ph. D. doctorate . As Robert Lincoln McNeil Scholar, the exchange program of the University of Saint Andrews, he conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania . He later taught at Columbia University and Rutgers University .

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His main research interests were the intersections of space, nature, social theory and history. In his major work from 1984, Smith argues that unequal spatial development is a function of the procedural logic of the capital market , that society and the economy “produce” space.

Smith published theories about urban gentrification as an economic, not social, process driven by urban land prices and speculation, not by a cultural preference for urban living. In his essay Toward a Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People from 1979, he presented the so-called rent gap theory for the first time , which he continuously developed in the following years.

Publications

Monographs

  • Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. Basil Blackwell, 1984.
  • with Peter Williams: Gentrification of the City. George, Allen and Unwin, London 1986.
  • with 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.
  • with Cindi Katz: Globalización: Transformaciones Urbanas, Precarización social 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 "and Henry Adams Prize
  • Endgame of Globalization. Routledge, London 2005.
  • with Setha Low : The Politics of Public Space. Routledge, London 2006.

Articles (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 , translated into German: For a theory of gentrification. “Back to the city” as a movement of capital, not of people , in: Sub \ urban: Journal for Critical Urban Research , 7 (3), 2019, 65–86.
  • Scale bending. In: E. Sheppard, R. McMaster (Eds.): Rethinking Scale. 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 US Globalism. In: Sharon Zukin , Michael Sorkin (Eds.): 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. Reprinted in: 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.
  • Foreword in: Henri Lefebvre : Urban Revolution. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2003.
  • Geographies of Substance. In: Paul Cloke, Philip Crang, Mark Goodwin (Eds.): 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 (eds.): Retours en ville. Descartes & Cie., Paris 2003.

literature

  • Noel Castree: Neil Smith . In: Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin (eds.): Key Thinkers on Space and Place (2nd ed.). Sage, Los Angeles et al. a. 2011, pp. 374-379.
  • Special issue on Neil Smith's “For a Theory of Gentrification: 'Back to the City' as a Movement of Capital, Not of People” (2019 [1979]), in: Sub \ urban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung , 7 (3), 2019 .

See also

Web links

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  1. ↑ Don Smith: Neil Smith obituary. Obituary in The Guardian, October 23, 2012 (accessed February 9, 2015).
  2. ↑ Neil Smith 1954 - 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary of his alma mater St. Andrews (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.st-andrews.ac.uk  
  3. ↑ Patrick Bond: What is Uneven Development? In: P. O'Hara (Ed.): The Encyclopaedia of Political Economy. Routledge, London 1999.
  4. ^ Neil Smith, The Production of Space. (Weblog)
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Neil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Neil Robert (full name); Smith, Neil R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geographer, urban researcher and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Leith , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 2012
Place of death New York City