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68
Citations
34858
World Ranking
832
National Ranking
396

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Neil Smith was affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their academic work primarily spanned the social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science, Music, Urban Studies, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their research covered a range of topics, notably:

  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Music Technology and Sound Studies
  • Musicology and Musical Analysis
  • Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
  • Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
  • Geography Education and Pedagogy
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies

Neil Smith authored multiple papers including the following recent publications:

  • "Missing the Audience. Online Musicking in Times of COVID-19" (2021) published in Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy / Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik
  • "Concrete Culture: The Planning Hearing as a Stage for Cultural Debates" (2021) published in Cultural Sociology
  • "Constructing the Public Concert Hall" (2021) published in Journal of the Royal Musical Association
  • "Additional testing of blood samples: reflective versus reflex" (2022) published in BMJ
  • "Malin Bång - Malin Bång, Structures of Light and Spruce. Curious Chamber Players, UmeDuo, Karin Hellqvist. NEOS 11817." (2020) published in Tempo

Their frequent co-authors included:

  • Peter Peters
  • Ties van de Werff
  • Stefan Rosu
  • Diane Lillo-Martin
  • Ianthi Maria Tsimpli

Among the venues where Neil Smith most frequently published were:

  • Tempo
  • Revista Geografias
  • Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy / Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik
  • Cultural Sociology
  • Journal of the Royal Musical Association

Neil Smith also contributed to book publications, with at least one title published by Intellect, namely Mathias Spahlinger in 2021.

Recognition of their work included being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995.

Best Publications

  • The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City

    Neil Smith

  • New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy

    Neil T. Smith

  • Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space

    Neil Smith

  • Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People

    Neil Smith

  • New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind

    Noam Chomsky;Neil Smith

  • The Acquisition of Phonology: A Case Study

    Neilson V. Smith

  • The changing state of gentrification

    Jason Hackworth;Neil Smith

  • The Politics of Public Space

    Setha M. Low;Neil Smith

  • Gentrification and the Rent Gap

    Neil Smith

  • Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals

    Neil Smith

  • Contours of a Spatialized Politics: Homeless Vehicles and the Production of Geographical Scale

    Neil Smith

  • Gentrification and Uneven Development

    Neil Smith

  • Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale

    Neil Smith

  • After Geopolitics? : From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics

    Deborah Cowen;Neil Smith

  • Modern Linguistics: The Results of Chomsky's Revolution

    Neil Smith;Deirdre Wilson

  • Gentrification of the City

    Neil Smith;Peter Williams

  • American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization

    Neil Smith

  • The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City

    Martin Brockerhoff;Neil Smith

  • States, scales and households: limits to scale thinking? A response to Brenner

    Sallie A. Marston;Neil Smith

  • Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space

    David M. Smith;Neil Smith

  • New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind: Naturalism and dualism in the study of language and mind

    Noam Chomsky;Neil Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Bencie Woll
Bencie Woll University College London
Setha M. Low
Setha M. Low City University of New York
Don Mitchell
Don Mitchell Uppsala University
Deirdre Wilson
Deirdre Wilson University College London
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey The Open University
Talal Asad
Talal Asad City University of New York
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Elvin Wyly
Elvin Wyly University of British Columbia
Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert University College London

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