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In 1978, Short accepted an appointment as lecturer in geography at the University of Reading.  From 1985 to 1987, he was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Research Unit of the Australian National University. He left Reading in 1990 to join Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship as professor of geography. In 2002, Short became Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He was appointed to his current position in the School of Public Policy at UMBC in 2005.
In 1978, Short accepted an appointment as lecturer in geography at the [[University of Reading]].  From 1985 to 1987, he was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Research Unit of the Australian National University. He left Reading in 1990 to join Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship as professor of geography. In 2002, Short became Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He was appointed to his current position in the School of Public Policy at UMBC in 2005.


Short has authored or co-authored more than 48 books, 100 papers and 42 chapters in edited books. His work has been translated into multiple languages. Short has published in human geography’s subfields, including the urban, the political, the environmental, the economic, and the cultural. His scholarship incorporates social and cultural theory methodologies, archival research strategies, and data analyses. 
Short has authored or co-authored more than 48 books, 100 papers and 42 chapters in edited books. His work has been translated into multiple languages. Short has published in human geography’s subfields, including the urban, the political, the environmental, the economic, and the cultural. His scholarship incorporates social and cultural theory methodologies, archival research strategies, and data analyses. 

Revision as of 18:15, 11 December 2019

  • Comment: Please read WP:REFB for help with correctly formatting sources. Theroadislong (talk) 17:45, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
  • Comment: You must remove phrases like "Short’s profound transdisciplinarity "
    Also, his notability is based on the books. The minor publications such as journal articles and public lectures are not even worth mentioning.
    The net effect is that this sounds like a promotional CV. DGG ( talk ) 18:20, 26 November 2019 (UTC)


John Rennie Short (born 19 October 1951) is a professor of geography and public policy in the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Early Life and Education

Short was born in Stirling, a city in west central Scotland. He was raised in nearby Tullibody, a village in the County of Clackmannanshire. Short attended the county grammar school, Alloa Academy. He received the MA in geography from Aberdeen University in 1973. His graduate education continued at the University of Bristol, where Short received the PhD in geography for the dissertation, “Residential Mobility in The Private Housing Market of Bristol” (1977). From 1976 to 1978, he maintained a residency in Bristol’s School of Geographical Sciences as Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

Career

In 1978, Short accepted an appointment as lecturer in geography at the University of Reading.  From 1985 to 1987, he was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Research Unit of the Australian National University. He left Reading in 1990 to join Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship as professor of geography. In 2002, Short became Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He was appointed to his current position in the School of Public Policy at UMBC in 2005.

Short has authored or co-authored more than 48 books, 100 papers and 42 chapters in edited books. His work has been translated into multiple languages. Short has published in human geography’s subfields, including the urban, the political, the environmental, the economic, and the cultural. His scholarship incorporates social and cultural theory methodologies, archival research strategies, and data analyses. 

Short's work has been presented in television and radio interviews, print interviews in national and special newspapers, essays on scholarly/journalistic websites, and republication/citation in outlets such as Associated Press, Business Insider, The Conversation, Market Watch, Newsweek, PBS Newshour, PRI, Salon, Slate, US News and World Report, Washington Post, World Economic Forum.

Publications

Authored Books

2020    World Regional Geography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190206703.

2018    The Unequal City: Urban Resurgence, Displacement and The Making of Inequality in Global Cities. Routledge, ISBN 9781138280366.

2018    Hosting the Olympic Games: The Real Costs for Cities. Routledge, ISBN 9781138544963.

2017    Human Geography: A Short Introduction (2nd ed.) Oxford University Press, ISBN 97880190679835.

2014    Urban Theory (2nd ed.) Palgrave Macmillan. (Translated into Chinese and Persian), ISBN 9781137382658.

2013    Stress Testing The USA: Public Policy and Reaction to Disaster Events. Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9781137327222.

2013    Cities and Nature (2nd ed.) Routledge (Co-authored with Lisa Benton-Short), ISBN 978041562555.

2012    Korea: A Cartographic History. University of Chicago Press (Translated into Korean), ISBN 9780226753546.

 2012  Globalization, Modernity and The City. Routledge, ISBN 9780415676922.

2010   Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US. Routledge (Co-authored with B. Hanlon and T. Vicino), ISBN 9780415497312.

2009  Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and The Exploration of The New World. Reaktion/University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9781861894366.

2008  Cities and Economy. Routledge (Co-authored with Y. Kim). (Translated into Persian), ISBN 9780415365741.

2007  Liquid City: Megalopolis Revisited. Resources for The Future Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9781933115498.

2006  Alabaster Cities: Urban US Since 1950. Syracuse University Press, ISBN 9780815631057.

2005  Imagined Country. Syracuse University Press (Reprint with new introduction, ISBN 9780815629542.

2004  Making Space: Revisioning The World, 1475-1600. Syracuse University Press, ISBN 9780815630234.

2004  Global Metropolitan. Routledge. (Translated into Persian), ISBN 9780415305419.

2004  Representing the Republic. Reaktion/University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9781861890863.

2001 Global Dimensions: Space, Place and The Contemporary World. Reaktion University of Chicago Press (Translated into Chinese), ISBN 9781861891020.

2000 Alternative Geographies. Prentice Hall, ISBN 9781861890863.

1999 Globalization and The City. Addison Wesley Longman (Co-authored with Y. Kim) (Translated into Persian), ISBN 0582369126 (paperback).

1999 Environmental Discourses and Practice.  Blackwell (Co-authored with L. M. Benton), ISBN 9780631211143.

1998  New Worlds, New Geographies. Syracuse University Press, ISBN 9780815605270.

1996  The Urban Order.  Blackwell (Translated into Korean, Chinese and Persian), ISBN 9781557863614.

1993  An Introduction to Political Geography. Routledge (Second, revised and      enlarged, edition) ISBN 9781138157019.

1989 The Humane City.  Blackwell (Translated into Korean, 2000), ISBN 9780631158233.

1986 Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action. Routledge (Co-authored with S. Fleming and S. Witt) ISBN 9780710207234.

1984 The Urban Arena. Macmillan ISBN 9780333361405.

1980 Housing and Residential Structure.  Routledge. Co-authored with K. Bassett), ISBN 9780710004406.

Edited books

2017 A Research Agenda for Cities. Edward Elgar Agendas (Editor), ISBN    9781785363412.

2008 The Sage Companion to The City. Sage (Co-edited with T. Hall and P. Hubbard), ISBN 97814129020692.

2002 Globalization and The Margins. Palgrave (Co-edited with R. Grant), ISBN 9780333964316.

Invited essays in edited books

In press. Five urban imaginaries. In Cities of The World (7th ed) (eds) Hayes-Mitchell, M., Graybill, J. and Zeigler, D. Rowman and Littlefield, ISBN 9781442249165.

2017      Global Cities. The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography. (ed) Richardson. Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 3087-3096, ISBN 9780470659632 DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0330.

2016      Urban Imaginaries of City and Nature. International Handbook of Cities and The       Environment (eds) K. Archer and K. Bezdecny. Elgar. Pp. 19-41, ISBN 9781784712259.

2016      Attracting Wealth: Crafting Immigration Policy to Attract the Rich. International Handbook of Wealth and the Super-Rich (eds) J. Beaverstock and I. Hay. Elgar. Pp. 363-380, ISBN 9781783474035.  

2015    City Marketing. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition. (ed) J. D. Wright Volume 3, pp. 662-668. Elsevier. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080970868740062, ISBN 9780080970868.

2014   Cities in Civilization. The Planning Imagination (eds.) M. Tewdwr-Jones, Phelps, N. and R. Freestone. Routledge. Pp. 54-63, ISBN 9780415506076.

2013    Economic Wealth and Political Power in The Second Gilded Age. Geographies of the Super-Rich (ed.) I. Hay. Elgar. Pp. 26-42, ISBN 9780857935687.

2011    Crystallizing the Urban Legacy of the Weimar Bauhaus. Bauhaus and The City (eds.) L. Colini and F. Eckardt. Konigshausen & Neumann. Pp. 142-152, ISBN 9783826043864.

1999     A New Mode of Thinking: Creating a National Geography in the Early Republic. Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 (ed.) E. Carter III. American Philosophical Society. Pp. 19-50, ISBN 9780871692313.

1999    Imagineers; Boosterism and the Representation of Cities. The Urban Growth Machine (eds.) A. Jonas and D. Wilson. SUNY Press. Pp. 37-54, ISBN 9780791442593.

1998   Urban crises/urban representations: selling the city in difficult times. The Entrepreneurial City (eds.) T. Hall and P. Hubbard. Wiley. (with Yeong Kim), ISBN 9780471977070.

References

[1] https://publicpolicy.umbc.edu/files/2018/06/John-Rennie-Short.cv_.pdf, Retrieved as of February 12, 2019

[2] https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7202306162, Retrieved as of September 15, 2018.

[3] Wikipedia contributors. (2018, August 22). Cultural turn. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:46, February 12, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cultural_turn&oldid=855964207

[4] Wikipedia contributors. (2015, September 2). Spatial turn. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23:08, February 12, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spatial_turn&oldid=679105398

[5] https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgeo20/1/1?nav=tocList

[6] Rodolphe Gasché, Geophilosophy, Northwestern University Press, 2014.

[7] ]http://www.geopoetics.org.uk/

[8] https://publicpolicy.umbc.edu/files/2018/06/John-Rennie-Short.cv.pdf, Retrieved as of February 12, 2019