Department of Geography and Planning

Neil Reid, Ph.D. - Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Department of Geography and Planning
The University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio 43606

neil.reid@utoledo.edu

419.530.3593

Education

• 1991    Ph.D., Arizona State University, Geography
• 1987    M.A., Miami University, Geography
• 1985    M.A., University of Glasgow, Geography

Academic Appointments

• 2012-  Present
  • Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo
• 2014-16
  • Director, Urban Studies Program, University of Toledo
• 2012
  • Visiting Professor, European Faculty of Engineering, Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland
• 2011
  • Visiting Professor, European Faculty of Engineering, Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland
• 2006-17
  • Director, Jack Ford Urban Affairs Center, University of Toledo
• 2005-06
  • Interim Director, Urban Affairs Center, University of Toledo
• 2005
  • Visiting Research Scholar, Center for Regional Development, Bowling Green State University
• 2000-05
  • Director, Master of Liberal Studies Program, University of Toledo
• 1997-2012
  • Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo
• 1991-97
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo

Recent Publications (2019-present)

Journal Papers

• 2022       Apardian, Rebekka, Isabelle Nilsson, Neil Reid, and Julie Wartell. The role of neighborhood characteristics for firm performance in the experience economy: A case study of production volumes in California’s Brewpub industry. Journal of Urban Management, 11(2): 214-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jum.2022.05.010.
• 2021       Urso, Giulia, Luca Storti, and Neil Reid. Shocking events. Institutional reactions to abrupt changes. Applied Geography, 137: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102586.
• 2020       Dentinho, Tomaz and Neil Reid. Urban growth models. An application to American cities. Land Use Policy, 111: 105160.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105160.
• 2020       Nilsson, Isabelle, Julie Wartell, and Neil Reid. 2020. Craft breweries and neighborhood crime: Are they related? Papers in Applied Geography, 6(3): 256-271. https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2020.1737187.
• 2020       Apardian, Rebekka and Neil Reid. Going out for a pint: Exploring the relationship between craft brewery locations and neighborhood walkability. Papers in Applied Geography, 6(3): 240-255. https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2019.1699151.
• 2019       Dobis, Elizabeth, Neil Reid, Claudia Schmidt, and Stephan J. Goetz. The role of craft breweries in expanding (local) hops production.  Journal of Wine Economics, 14(4): 374 – 382. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/C74010344FE5358640B167B9337300F8/S1931436119000178a.pdf/role_of_craft_breweries_in_expanding_local_hop_production.pdf.
• 2019       Nilsson, Isabelle and Neil Reid. The value of a craft brewery: On the relationship between craft breweries and property values. Growth and Change, 50(2): 689-704. https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12292.
• 2019       Nilsson, Isabelle, Oleg Smirnov, Neil Reid, and Matthew Lehnert. To cluster or not to cluster? Spatial determinants of closures in the American craft brewing industry. Papers in Regional Science, 98(4): 1759-1778. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12434.

Guest Editorials

• 2020       Dentinho, Tomaz, and Neil Reid. Regional drivers, effects, and policies of COVID‐19. Regional Science Policy and Practice, 12, 6: 979–980. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12378.
• 2020       Reid, Neil, Maria Giulia Pezzi, and Martin Stack. Space, place, and culture: An applied geography of craft beer. Papers in Applied Geography, 175-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2020.1789891.
• 2019       Pezzi, Maria Giulia, Alessandra Faggian, and Neil Reid. Local entrepreneurship and tourism development in peripheral areas between policies and practices. Regional Science Policy and Practice, 11(3): 445-449. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12226.

Books

• 2023       Hira, Anil, Paul Gottlieb, Neil Reid, Stephan Goetz, and Elizabeth Dobis. Cooperatives in Clusters: The Experiment to Overcome Agricultural Commodity Cycles in the Cranberry Industry. Oregon State University Press (forthcoming).
• 2022       Storti, Luca, Giulia Urso, and Neil Reid (Eds.). Economies, Institutions, and Territories: Dissecting Nexuses. Routledge, 332pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003191049,
• 2021       Pezzi, Maria Giulia, Alessandra Faggian, and Neil Reid (Eds.). Agritourism, Wine Tourism, and Craft Beer Tourism: Local Responses to Peripherality through Tourism Niches. Routledge, 286pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429464102.

Book Chapters

• 2023       Reid, Neil. Craft breweries as neighborhood assets: Adaptive reuse, neighborhood revitalization, and third places. In Julie Wartell and Vince Vasquez (Eds.). Craft Breweries & Cities. Routledge , 17-26. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003371564
• 2023       Reid, Neil and Isabelle Nilsson. From mill district to brewery district: Craft beer and the revitalization of Charlotte’s NoDa neighborhood. In Daina Cheyenne Harvey, Ellis Jones, and Nate Chapman (Eds), Beer Places: The Micro-Geographies of Craft Beer. University of Arkansas Press, 71-92.
• 2022       Reid, Neil, Margaret Gripshover, and Thomas L. Bell. Meeting the challenge of COVID-19: How American craft breweries responded. In Stanley D. Brunn and Donna Gilbreath (Eds.). COVID-19 and an Emerging World of Ad Hoc Geographies, Springer Nature, 1487–1513. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-94350-9_81.
• 2021       Storti, Luca, Giulia Urso, and Neil Reid. Economies, territories, institutions: Analytical fragments of a complicated relationship. In Luca Storti, Giulia Uroso, and Neil Reid (Eds.). Economies, Institutions, and Territories: Dissecting Nexuses. Routledge, 1-27. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003191049-1/economies-territories-institutions-luca-storti-giulia-urso-neil-reid.
• 2021       Storti, Luca, Giulia Urso, and Neil Reid. Economies-Institition-Terriories: Old issues revisited and new research avenues. In Luca Storti, Giulia Urso, and Neil Reid (Eds.). Economies, Institutions, and Territories: Dissecting Nexuses. Routledge, 313-324. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003191049-18/economies%E2%80%93institutions%E2%80%93territories-luca-storti-giulia-urso-neil-reid.
• 2021       Reid, Neil. Craft beer tourism: The search for authenticity, diversity, and great beer. In Özge Öner, Mauro Ferrante, and Oliver Fritz. Regional Science Perspectives in Tourism and Hospitality, Springer, 317-337. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-61274-0_16.
• 2021       Nilsson, Isabelle, Neil Reid, and Harrison Campbell. The changing industrial structure of American megaregions. In Edward Glaeser, Peter Nijkamp and Karima Kourtit. Urban Empires: Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World, Routledge, 275-296. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429469978-20/changing-industrial-organization-american-megaregions-isabelle-nilsson-neil-reid-harrison-campbell.
• 2021       Pezzi, Maria Giulia, Alessandra Faggian, and Neil Reid. Local responses to peripherality through tourism development. In Maria Giulia Pezzi, Alessandra Faggian, and Neil Reid (Eds.). Agritourism, Wine Tourism, and Craft Beer Tourism: Local Responses to Peripherality through Tourism Niches, Routledge, 1-9. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429464102-1/introduction-maria-giulia-pezzi-alessandra-faggian-neil-reid.
• 2021       Reid, Neil, Maria Giulia Pezzi, and Alessandra Faggian. Tourism in peripheral regions: Some challenges. In Maria Giulia Pezzi, Alessandra Faggian, and Neil Reid (Eds.). Agritourism, Wine Tourism, and Craft Beer Tourism: Local Responses to Peripherality through Tourism Niches. Routledge, 245-254. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429464102-17/conclusion-neil-reid-maria-giulia-pezzi-alessandra-faggian.
• 2020       Lehnert, Matthew, Isabelle Nilsson, and Neil Reid. Navigating the regulatory environment in American urban areas: The case of craft breweries. In Madsen, Erik, Jens Gammelgaard, and Bersant Hobdari (Eds.) New Developments in the Brewing Industry: The Role of Institutions and Ownership.  Oxford University Press, 47-71. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854609.003.0003.
• 2020       Reid, Neil, Stephan J. Goetz, Elizabeth A. Dobis, Paul D. Gottlieb, and Anil Hira. The impact of the craft beer revolution on the American hop industry. In Armin Kratzer, Jutta Kister, Frank Zirkl (eds). Rural – urban Linkages for Sustainable Development. Taylor & Francis, 127-142. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429288111-8/impact-craft-beer-revolution-american-hop-industry-neil-reid-stephan-goetz-elizabeth-dobis-paul-gottlieb-anil-hira.
• 2020       Reid, Neil, Jay D. Gatrell, and Matthew Lehnert. Leveraging brewing history: The case of Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. In Thakur, Rajiv, Ashok K. Dutt, Sudhir K. Thakur, and George Pomeroy (Eds). Urban and Regional Planning and Development: 20th Century Forms and 21st Century Transformations, Springer, 453-466. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-31776-8_28.
• 2019       Reid, Neil, Margaret M. Gripshover, and Thomas L. Bell. Craft breweries and adaptive reuse in the USA: The use and reuse of space and language. In: Brunn S., Kehrein R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_76-2.

Forewords

• 2021       Reid, Neil. Peter Nijkamp – A gentleman and a scholar. In Suzuki, Soushi Suzuki and Roberto Patuelli (Eds.). A Broad View of Regional Science: Essays in Honor of Peter Nijkamp. Springer, xvii-xviii.

Trade Magazines/Popular Media

• 2023       Reid Neil. Millennials driving sales of distilled spirits to surpass beer for first time. UTNews. April 7. https://news.utoledo.edu/index.php/04_07_2023/millennials-driving-sales-of-distilled-spirits-to-surpass-beer-for-first-time.
• 2021       Reid, Neil. A toast to the survival skills of craft breweries during American craft beer week. The Brewer Magazine. May 13. https://thebrewermagazine.com/a-toast-to-the-survival-skills-of-craft-breweries-during-american-craft-beer-week/.
• 2020       Reid, Neil. America’s bad taste in beer is prohibition’s legacy. Wall Street Journal. January 16. https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-bad-taste-in-beer-is-prohibitions-legacy-11579219039.
• 2020       Reid, Neil. Do craft breweries gentrify neighborhoods? It's complicated. Salon.com. January 13. https://www.salon.com/2020/01/13/are-craft-breweries-a-harbinger-of-gentrification-its-complicated/.

Reports

• 2020       Reid, Neil. Veza Sur: A Craft Brewery or a Crafty Brewery? at the request of Joshua Lida, Esq., Twig, Trade, & Tribunal, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 22pp. (Report prepared as an expert witness in a class action lawsuit against AB InBev).
• 2020       Reid, Neil. The Benefits of Craft Breweries to Small Communities. Prepared at Request of Nicki Wener, Co-Founder of Jefferson Beer Supply, Jefferson, SD, 39pp.
• 2020       Reid, Neil. Craft Breweries as Neighborhood Assets. Report Prepared at Request of Andrew Newby, Co-Founder and CEO Of Toledo Spirits Company, Toledo, OH, 10pp.

Select Professional Service

2023-Present           Member, International Scientific Advisory Board, Ankara University, Turkey

2023-Present           Associate Editor, Applied Geography

2017-Present           Book Review Editor, Regional Science Policy and Practice

2016-Present           Member, International Editorial Advisory Board, Folia Geographica

2014-15                      Member of Referee Panel for ANEP (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva) (Spain’s National Evaluation and Foresight Agency)

2014                             Member of External Review Team for the Urban and Regional Studies Program at the University of Michigan-Dearborn

2013-2021                  Executive Director, North American Regional Science Council.

2011- Present           Editorial Board Member, Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

2010-Present            Book Review Editor, Economic Development Quarterly.

2010-14                       Chair, International Geographical Union Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces.

2007-Present            Associate Editor, Regional Science Policy and Practice.

1997-2000                  Member, Editorial Board, The Professional Geographer.

Awards

2021               President’s Award for Excellence in Creative and Scholarly Activity, University of Toledo

2016               David Boyce Award for Distinguished Service to Regional Science, North American Regional Science Council

2010                Edith Rathbun Award for Excellence in Outreach and Engagement, University of Toledo

2009                Distinguished Service Award, Association of American Geographers Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group

2008-09          Outstanding Researcher Award, University of Toledo

1999-2001     Master Teacher, University of Toledo

1998                 Fellow, University College, University of Toledo

1992                  Institute of British Geographers Young Research Worker Award

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