
Nick R. Smith
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Pronouns: he/him
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Assistant Professor, Architecture and Urban Studies, Barnard College
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716 Milstein Center
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
BIOGRAPHY:
Nick R. Smith is an assistant professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, where he is also a faculty affiliate at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. An interdisciplinary scholar of global urban studies, Smith’s research explores the politics of urbanization and planning, with a regional focus on China and Southeast Asia. Smith is the author of The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China. He is currently writing a history of the Shekou Industrial Zone and the urban origins of China’s reform era.
PUBLICATIONS
Smith, Nick R. 2021. The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, MN.
Smith, Nick R. 2022. “Continental Metropolitanization: Chongqing and the Urban Origins of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.” Urban Geography 43 (10): 1544–1564. doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.2014670
Smith, Nick R. 2021. “Planning Powers as Property Rights in Contemporary China.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 41 (3): 259–69. doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18787623.
Smith, Nick R. 2020. “Spatial Poetics Under Authoritarianism: Graffiti and the Contestation of Urban Redevelopment in Contemporary China.” Antipode 52 (2): 581–601. doi.org/10.1111/anti.12607.
Smith, Nick R. 2019. “Community Self-Organisation in Contemporary China: Efficiency, Equity and Affect in the Process of Institutional Transformation.” International Development Planning Review 41 (3): 399–418. doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2019.12
Smith, Nick R., Daniel B. Abramson, and Mi Shih. 2019. “An Introduction to Planning China’s Communities: Between People and Place.” International Development Planning Review 41 (3): 247–67. doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2019.20
Smith, Nick R. 2019. "One Village, One Product: Agro-Industrial Village Corporatism in Contemporary China." Journal of Agrarian Change. 19 (2): 249-269. doi:10.1111/joac.12301
Smith, Nick R. 2014. "Beyond Top-Down/Bottom-Up: Village Transformation on China's Urban Edge." Cities 41, Part B (December): 209–20. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2014.01.006.
Smith, Nick R. 2014. "Living on the Edge: Household Registration Reform and Peri-urban Precarity in China." Journal of Urban Affairs 36 (S1): 1-15. doi:10.1111/juaf.12107.