deaths
September 29, 2012
Neil Smith, Scottish geographer and academic (born 1954)
Neil Smith (geographer)
Neil Robert Smith was a Scottish geographer and Marxist academic. He was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and winner of numerous awards, including the Globe Book Award of the Association of American Geographers. Smith is known for his analysis of gentrification and his influential rent-gap theory.
September 29
September 29 is the 272nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 93 days remain until the end of the year.