Back نيل سميث (أستاذ جامعي أمريكي) Arabic نيل سميث (باحث انثروبولوجيا) ARZ Neil Smith Catalan Neil Smith (Geograph) German Neil Smith Esperanto Neil Smith Spanish Neil Smith (géographe) French ニール・スミス (地理学者) Japanese Neil Smith Portuguese 尼爾·史密斯 (地理學家) Chinese
Neil Robert Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 July 1954 |
| Died | 29 September 2012 (aged 58) |
| Nationality | British |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of St. Andrews (B.Sc., 1977) Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Harvey |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Geography, Anthropology |
| Doctoral students | Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Don Mitchell (geographer) |
Neil Robert Smith (18 July 1954 – 29 September 2012) was a Scottish geographer and Marxist academic. He was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and winner of numerous awards, including the Globe Book Award of the Association of American Geographers.[1] Smith is known for his analysis of gentrification and his influential rent-gap theory.
- ^ Smith, Neil (2004). American Empire. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520243385.