Professor Emeritus, Public Policy
jrs@umbc.edu
John Rennie Short’s website
Research Interests
Geopolitics, urban issues, environmental concerns and cartographic representations
In the News
Video: John Rennie Short talks about hosting the Olympic Games on NBC
Article in The Conversation about why some cities will survive, and even thrive, the COVID-19 pandemic.
John Rennie Short is featured on a podcast about radical proposals for hosting the Olympic Games.
Education
Ph.D., University of Bristol
M.A., Geography, University of Aberdeen
Select Recent Publications
- The Urban Now: Living in an Age of Urban Globalism. Edward Elgar. (2023)
- The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century. Anthem Press. (2022) Cambridge University Press
- “A flawed democracy.” The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics and Art 2: 272-277. (2022)
- “Geopolitical consequences of the war in Ukraine.” Transatlantic Policy Quarterly Summer: 47-56 (2022)
- “Cities after COVID.” The Philosopher’s Magazine. 97: 54-63. (2022)
- “The informal city: exploring the variety of the street vending economy.” Sustainability (with Lina Martinez) (2022)
- “Contesting place names: The East Sea/Sea of Japan.” Geography Review (with Leah Dubots) (2022)
- “Cities and climate change.” Earth 2:1038-1045 (with Abbey Farmer). (2021)
- “Social inclusion in cities.” Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 3: 684572 (2021)
- “The pandemic city: urban issues in the time of COVID-19.” Sustainability (with Lina Martinez). 13, 3295. (2021)
- Geopolitics: Making Sense of A Changing World. Rowman and Littlefield. (2021)
- Stress Testing The USA (2nd ed) Palgrave Macmillan. (2021)
- “Life satisfaction in the city.” Scienze Regionali (with Lina Martinez) (2020)
- “Contesting place names: The East Sea/Sea of Japan.” Geography Review (with Leah Dubots) (2020)
- “The urban effects of the emerging middle class in the Global South.” Geography Compass (with Lina Martinez) (2020)
- World Regional Geography. Oxford University Press. (2019)
- “A fragile hold on consumption: consumption and the new middle class in Colombia.” Review of European Studies 33: 73-83 (with Lina Martinez and Maria Isabel Zafra). (2019)
- “What do global metrics tell us about the world?” Social Sciences 8, 136 (with Justin Velez-Hagan and Leah Dubots) (2019)
- A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada: Toward A Sustainable Future. Rowman and Littlefield (Co-authored with Lisa Benton-Short and Chris Mayda). (2018)
- The Unequal City: Urban Resurgence, Displacement and the Making of Inequality in Global Cities. Routledge (2018)
- Hosting the Olympic Games: The Real Costs for Cities. Routledge. (2018)
- “The diversity of street vending: A case study of street vending in Cali.” Cities 79: 18-25 (with Lina Martinez and Daniela Estrada). (2018)
- “Global Cities.” The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography. (2018)
- “The urban informal economy: street vendors in Cali, Colombia”. Cities 66: 34-43 (with Lina Martinez and Daniela Estrada) (2017)
- “Urban Imaginaries of City and Nature. International Handbook of Cities and The Environment” (eds) K. Archer and K. Bezdecny. Elgar. (2016)
- “A perfect storm: climate change, the power grid and regulatory regime change after network failure.” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. 34: 244-261. (2016)
Experience and Honors
- Fulbright scholar
- Professor and Chair, Geography and Environmental Systems, UMBC
- Professor of Geography, Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship, Syracuse University
- Helen and John S. Best Fellowship. American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- The Leverhulme Visiting Professorship to UK, Loughborough University
- Alexander O. Vietor Fellowship in Cartography, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript, Library, Yale University