Nick R. Smith

Author of "The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China":

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

I'm excited to be joining the terrific community of Asia scholars at the Weatherhead East Asia Institute!

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

"The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China" is now available! Offering an inside look at China's experimental new approach to urban and rural development.

https://t.co/uXR1EDJ23c

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

Reading between the lines of the WHO report: the way China has urbanized over the past twenty years probably contributed to CoVID and could make another pandemic more likely https://t.co/bW2v0Bfgo1

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

New special issue of IDPR out on community development and planning in China, with eight awesome articles (including two by yours truly). The intro is free to download. Check it out!

[Liverpool University Press @LivUniPress]

The Featured Article in International Development Planning Review 41.3 is 'An introduction to planning China's communities: between people and place' by @urbanismith, Daniel B. Abramson, and Mi Shih. The paper is #free to read for a limited time here https://t.co/Ka5bDCbaq8

[Sara M. Watson @smwat]

"when killing a mosquito is considered a civic duty" — @urbanismith

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

Today at noon in the CREATE building, "feel the burn" of the Urban Furnace: https://t.co/4AhCGjD7OA

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

Is housing the real driver of inequality? #SanFran #housingcrisis isn't economic, it's political https://t.co/xEvUBs1GIs

[LSE Cities @LSECities]

Explore the new home for #UrbanAge10 research: https://t.co/T1LjGAU8CR @AHG_Berlin

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

Alternatively: Given that China's political system is enduring ... @gadyepstein @PaulsonInst https://t.co/dCnLppvLY3

[Gady Epstein @gadyepstein]

This is a good question. Hope someone shows up Thursday with the answer. https://t.co/4IImsgnhWf

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

The geography of ocean cables. Concentration of capacity in few nodes suggests lack of #resilience @UrbanTheoryLab https://t.co/cpVCQngfZk

[Rosy Schechter @RosySchechter]

SO COOL! // A map of all the underwater cables that connect the internet https://t.co/seFunsf9O3 via @voxdotcom

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

What would a Singapore School of Urban Studies look like? #Chicago #LosAngeles #Singapore #urbanstudiesforthe21stcentury

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

For all who have been surviving the haze in SE Asia, an impassioned critique of the political economy of apocalypse: https://t.co/8K9u3EpXOW

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

Researching Halloween costumes ... #zombehkitteh with @smwat

[NancyWGleason @NWGleason]

Yale-NUS Global China Connection case competition is underway in #singapore - finalists crushing it! @yalenusgcc

[Sara M. Watson @smwat]

#futrSG has been such a great way to get to know my new home and neighbors doing important work on data and smart cities here in Singapore

[Nick R. Smith @urbanismith]

@smwat killing it with speculative fiction at #futrsg

[honor harger @honorharger]

"For every data scientist we hire, we should be hiring an ethnographer." - @urbanismith #futrSG - yeah!

[- @ArndtHusar]

Mao's great leap forward #fail (famine) was a data & theory fail. Exaggerated reporting, bias interpretation #futrsg

[Sara M. Watson @smwat]

.@urbanismith talking little red notebooks, qualitative research, and grounded theory for smart cities #futrsg

[Anna Iles (Simpson) @_annasimpson]

'Data can lead to greater confidence but not always in the right things' - @urbanismith @FuturEverything #futrsg