nick r. smith

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., and Callysta Thony. 2025. “Beyond Borders: The Spatial Politics of Urban Fragmentation in Jakarta.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, (Online first). https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251361705.

Chuang, Julia, and Nick R. Smith. 2025. “Regimes of Dispossession in China: Intra-State Competition and Land Dispossession Outcomes.” The Journal of Peasant Studies, (Online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2453559.

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

Bunnell, Tim, Maitrii Aung-Thwin, Jessica N Clendenning, Daniel PS Goh, and Nick R. Smith. 2022. “Points of Persuasion: Truth Spots in Future City Development.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 40 (6): 1082–99. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758221133832.

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. 2026. “Land, Land Reform, and Land as Means of Reform.” In SAGE Handbook on Urbanization in China, edited by Lisa Hoffman, Jennifer Hubbert, and Zhilin Liu. SAGE. (Forthcoming).

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.