Books by Michael Peter Smith

This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place", and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. It draws on a wide range of disciplines, including literature, planning and sociology.

Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism

Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe

Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement

This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City

For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field.

An examination of the scope and limits of transnationalism. Four parts consider theorizing transnationalism, transnational economic and political agency, constructing transnational localities, and transnational practices and cultural reinscription. The editors pose questions that challenge prevailing interpretations of globalisation.

Cities are key sites of transnational ties that connect people, places, and projects across the globe. This book brings together a series of ethnographic studies that suggest ways to situate and historicize transnationalism, identify pathways to transnational urbanism, and map the contours of translocal, interregional, and diasporic connections.

For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field.

This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City

Citizenship across Borders offer a new way of looking at the emergent dynamics of transnational community development and electoral politics on both sides of the border.

This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place", and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. It draws on a wide range of disciplines, including literature, planning and sociology.

Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement