S mith, N eil

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ID23702155
AuthorsKathryn Dunn (0000-0002-7488-7981, Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author), Kathleen Dunn
Year2019
Pages1-5
Publication date2019-04-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0295
OpenAlexW4239544198
ISBN9781118568446
LanguageEN
References cited12

Neil Smith (1954–2012) was an influential Marxist geographer known for his work on gentrification and the process of uneven development. His rent gap theory of gentrification argues that reinvestment in working‐class urban areas arises due to a gap between present and potential ground rent if redeveloped for a higher and better use. Smith characterized gentrification as a class project of revanchism, or revenge, of the upper classes to “take back” the city, a late‐twentieth‐century manifest destiny of urban “pioneering” for profit. He also developed an influential theory of uneven development, explicating how nature is produced from within the capitalist mode of production and offering a relational method for analyzing the production of space writ large. Smith also wrote extensively about the relationship between the discipline of geography, empire, and globalization, writing a widely lauded book on geographer Isaiah Bowman and a final shorter book on the ends of globalization. Born and raised in Scotland, Smith earned his doctorate degree as a student of David Harvey at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and held positions at Columbia University, Rutgers University, and from 2000 to his death in 2012 was distinguished professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he founded the Center for Place, Culture and Politics.

Art history · Destiny (ISS module) · Economic geography · Economic history · Gentrification · Geographer · Geography · Globalization · Manifest destiny · Marxist philosophy · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance

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