史密斯在他的开创性文章《迈向绅士化理论:资本而非人民的回归城市运动》(Toward a Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People, 1979)中提出了内城绅士化理论,认为绅士化是城市土地价格和土地投机推动的经济过程,而非源于人们在文化上喜欢住在城市。
史密斯好奇,为何对空间和地点的批判性研究迟迟才进入地理学,这促使他研究了20世纪早期的地理学家艾赛亚·鲍曼,并撰写了著作《美帝国:罗斯福的地理学家和全球化的序幕》(2003),追溯美国在对地理的无知中崛起为全球大国的历史。该书获得了联邦政府历史学会的亨利·亚当斯奖等多个奖项。[1]史密斯对美国主导的资本主义新自由主義的批判在《全球化的终结》(The Endgame of Globalization,2005)中得到进一步发展。[7][8]
位于爱丁堡的乐队New Urban Frontier的名字取自史密斯的著作《新城市前沿:士绅化与恢复土地运动者之城》(The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City)的书名。其2015年的专辑Game of Capital也是为了纪念史密斯。[10]
出版物
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2009. Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice. Routledge (edited with Heather Gautney, Omar Dahbour and Ashley Dawson).
2006 The Politics of Public Space (with Setha Low). Routledge.
2006 La Produccion de la Naturaleza; La Produccion del Espacio. Mexico City: Sistema Universidad Abierta, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2006
2005 The Endgame of Globalization. Routledge.
2005 Capital Financiero, Propiedad Inmobiliaria y Cultura. MACBA & Publicacions de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (with David Harvey)
2003 American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. University of California Press (winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography).
2000 Globalización: Transformaciones urbanas, precarización social y discriminación de género (with Cindi Katz). Nueva Grafica, S.A.L. La Cuesta, La Laguna.
1994 Geography and Empire: Critical Studies in the History of Geography (edited with Anne Godlewska). Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
1986 Gentrification of the City (edited with Peter Williams). George Allen and Unwin, London.
1984 Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space,存档于互联网档案馆(存檔日期 3 February 2013). Basil Blackwell. 2nd ed. 1990, 3rd Ed. University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 2008; London: Verso, 2010. (Translated and published as Desenvolvimento Desigual, Editora Bertrand Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 1988)
2021《不平衡发展:自然、资本和空间的生产》,商务印书馆
1977. Geography, Social Welfare and Underdevelopment. University of St. Andrews (edited with Malcolm Forbes and Michael Kershaw).
論文
2011 “Ten Years After,” Geographical Journal 177,
2011 “Uneven Development Redux,” New Political Economy 16: 261–265.
2010 “’Martial Law in the Streets of Toronto’: G20, Security and State Violence,” Human Geography 3.3:29–46,
2010 “The Revolutionary Imperative,” Antipode 41: 50–65.
2009 “After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics,” Antipode 40: 2–48 (with Deborah Cowen)
2008 “The Shock Doctrine: a discussion,” Society and Space 26:582–595 (with Naomi Klein)
2008 "Review Essay: David Harvey: A Critical Reader,” Progress in Human Geography, 32,1:147–155.
2007 “Gentrification, Displacement, and Tourism in Santa Cruz de Tenerife,” Urban Geography, 28, 2007, 276–298 (with Luz Marina García Herrera and Miguel Angel Mejías Vera)
2007 “Another Revolution is Possible: Foucault, ethics and politics,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25:191–193
2006 “Nature as Accumulation Strategy”, Socialist Register, 16–36
2006 “The Endgame of Globalization”, Political Geography, 25,1:1–14.
2003 “Global Executioner”, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 105,1: 55–69.
2003 “Neo-Critical Geography, Or, The Flat Pluralist World of Business Class”, Antipode, 37, 5: 887–899.
2003 “After the American Lebensraum: ‘Empire’, Empire, and Globalization”, Interventions, 5:2:249-270.
2003 "Geographies of Substance" in Envisioning Human Geography, Paul Cloke, Philip Crang, and Mark Goodwin, eds.
2003 "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): 434–57. 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, 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.
1979 "Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People". Journal of the American Planning Association 45 (4): 538–48. doi:10.1080/01944367908977002
^Biswas, Padmini. Neil R. Smith, 1954 – 2012. The Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Pcp.gc.cuny.edu. 2012-09-29 [29 September 2012]. (原始内容存档于2022-09-22).