Book
Smith, Nick R. 2021. The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, MN. (Bookshop, Amazon, UMP)
Refereed Journal Articles:
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.
Book Chapters and Contributions to Edited Volumes:
Smith, Nick R. 2023. “Bukit Brown and the Illiberal Ghosts of the Singapore Model.” In Fainstein, Susan, and John Forester, eds. “Resistance and Response in Planning.” Planning Theory & Practice, April. 268-272. doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2190681.
Smith, Nick R. 2019. “Suburban Stories.” In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, Anthony Orum, ed. John Wiley & Sons. 1-4. doi.org/10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0330.
Smith, Nick R. 2014. “City-in-the-Village: Huanggang and China’s Urban Renewal.” In Village in the City: An Informal Portrait of South China, edited by Stefan Al, 34–46. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Amazon
Review Essays:
Smith, Nick R. “Building Colonial Hong Kong: Speculative Development and Segregation in the City.” Journal of the American Planning Association 89 (2): 255–56. doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2022.2133324
Smith, Nick R. 2021. “State of Contradiction: The Singapore Model and Its Others.” Planning Theory & Practice, July, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2021.1951591.
Smith, Nick R. 2021. “Rural Perspectives on Asia's Urban–Rural Relations.” The Journal of Asian Studies 80 (2): 540–43. doi:10.1017/S0021911821000553.
Smith, Nick R. 2014. “Chinese City and Regional Planning Systems.” China Quarterly 220 (December): 1161-1162.
Smith, Nick R. 2014. Conference Report: “Building Resilient Cities in China: The Nexus Between Planning and Science.” Town Planning Review 85, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 127–42. doi:10.3828/tpr.2014.8.
Guest Editorships:
Smith, Nick R., Daniel B. Abramson, and Mi Shih eds. 2019. "Community Development and Planning in China." Special Issue of the International Development Planning Review 41 (3).
Op-Eds:
Smith, Nick R. 2021. “China’s Rapid Urbanization Will Make Another Pandemic More Likely.” The Washington Post, March 31, 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/03/31/who-report-pandemic-china-cities/.
Published in China:
Smith, Nick R. 2014. “Change and Continuity: Chinese Villages in Transition (IV) - Wanmin Village.” China City Planning Review 23, no. 2.
Smith, Nick R. 2014. “Change and Continuity: Chinese Villages in Transition (III) - Hailong Village.” China City Planning Review 23, no. 1: 68-75.
Smith, Nick R. 2013. “Change and Continuity: Chinese Villages in Transition (II) - Panyang Village.” China City Planning Review 22, no. 4: 67-72.
Smith, Nick R. 2013. “Change and Continuity: Chinese Villages in Transition (I) - Longmei Village.” China City Planning Review 22, no. 3: 66–72.