With much sadness and respect, we mourn the loss of Neil Smith. Born in Scotland in 1954, the Marxist geographer was a student of David Harvey’s and teacher of many, inspiring countless political activists and intellectuals, and deepening our understanding of urban struggles and the process of gentrification. Not simply an effect of cultural changes within a city (for instance, the growth of a creative class), gentrification, Smith argued, is ultimately an economic process, one driven by those looking to profit by increasing the value of land.
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Audrea Lim
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04 October 2012
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