Neil Smith's Scale
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In a special issue acknowledging the scholarship of Neil Smith, the authors traced his contributions to conceptualizing scale, from his important foundational text, Uneven development, to his later works that fashioned a more malleable, constructivist, and socio-cultural approach.Abstract:
In this essay, part of a special issue acknowledging the scholarship of Neil Smith, we trace his contributions to conceptualizing scale. From his important foundational text, Uneven Development, to his later works that fashioned a more malleable, constructivist, and socio-cultural approach, Neil Smith made lifelong contributions to our understanding of the processes of scale production—contributions that have forever altered how we understand the relationships among space, capitalism, and politics.read more
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The Limits to Capital
TL;DR: The Limits to Capital as mentioned in this paper is a theory of capital that links a general Marxian theory of financial and geographical crises with the incredible turmoil now being experienced in world markets, and provides one of the best theoretical guides to the contradictory forms found in the historical and geographical dynamics of capitalist development.
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Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space
TL;DR: The ideology of nature is the production of nature, the creation of space toward a theory of uneven development as mentioned in this paper, the dialectic of geographical differentiation and equalization, spatial scale and the see-saw of capital.
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New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy
TL;DR: This paper used several events in New York in the late 1990s to launch two central arguments about the changing relationship between neoliberal urbanism and so-called globalization: the state becomes a consummate agent of the market, and the new revanchist urbanism that replaces liberal urban policy in cities of the advanced capitalist world increasingly expresses the impulses of capitalist production rather than social reproduction.
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The social construction of scale
TL;DR: A review of the important literature on scale construction can be found in this paper, where the authors argue for enlarging the scope for understanding scale to include the complex processes of social reproduction and consumption.
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New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
TL;DR: The State Spatial Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis as discussed by the authors ) is a state spatial process under capitalism framework for analysis, focusing on cities, states, and the explosion of spaces.