Staff Profile:Professor Kathryn (Kathy) Pain
- Name:
- Professor Kathy Pain
- Job Title:
- ALDAR Professor of Real Estate Development
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Qualifications:
- Diploma in Town Planning, PhD (Reading).
- Corporate Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute,
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Affiliations:
- Associate Director, Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network, Loughborough University.
- Fellow, The Young Foundation, London.
Profile:
Kathy is a professional urban planner and geographer. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Corporate Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. She has previously worked as a Senior Planner at the London Borough of Hillingdon and as an academic at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) University of Birmingham, the Open University, the Young Foundation London, and the Department of Geography Loughborough University.
Kathy's research specializes in the impact of contemporary processes of globalization on cities and regions in the UK, Europe and overseas. Her work covers four interrelated theoretical-empirical strands:
- Global city agglomeration and development in the world service economy.
- The global network dynamics and geographies of advanced, knowledge-intensive, financial and business services.
- Global mega-city region economic and spatial development and sustainability.
- Strategic policy and planning for urban development in C21st economic globalization.
Kathy's research has informed academic and policy thinking on urban and regional developments in Europe, North America and Pacific Asia, including: the UK Treasury fourth economic test for entry to Economic Monetary Union on the financial services industry and City wholesale markets; the South East England Statutory Regional Policy Guidance Review; Canada's Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative; regional development of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) China; the United States Regional Plan Association Mega-regions research; the New South Wales, Australia, Department of State and Regional Development on the Sydney global city-region; and the Abu Dhabi Council for Economic Development on global city development and sustainability. Kathy co-directed the EUR 2.4m INTERREG IIIB North West Europe POLYNET: Sustainable Management of European Mega-City Regions study with Regional Studies Association President, Sir Peter Hall: The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe.
Selected Publications:
Pain, K. "Outsourcing and offshoring in business services - new dynamics, new territorial opportunities?" Regions, (274), Summer 2009.
Taylor, P.J., Ni, P.F., Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Huang, J., Lv, F., Pain, K., Witlox, F., Bassens, D., Shen, W. "The way we were: Command and control centres in the global space economy on the eve of the 2008 geo-economic transition" Environment and Planning A, 40(1), 2009.
Taylor, P.J., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Harrison, J., review of "Cities as Worlds, Worlds as Cities, Commentaries on World City by Doreen Massey, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2007 - A Global Sense of Flow?", Area, 40(3), 2008.
Pain, K. and Hall, P., "Informational Quantity versus Informational Quality: The perils of navigating the space of flows", Regional Studies, 42(8), 2008.
Taylor, P., Evans, D. and Pain, K., "Application of the Inter-Locking Network Model to Mega City-Regions: Measuring Polycentricity within and beyond City-Regions", Regional Studies, 42(8), 2008.
Pain, K., "Examining Core-Periphery Relationships in a Global Mega-City Region - The Case of London and South East England", Regional Studies, 42(8), 2008.
Pain, K., "Spaces of practice in advanced business services: rethinking London-Frankfurt relations", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(2), 2008.
Pain, K., "Urban Regions and Economic Development", Connecting Cities: City-Regions, Johnson, C., Hu, R. and Abedin, S., Metropolis Congress 2008, Sydney, Australia, 2008.
Pain, K., ''Integrating the European Space - Flows and places in North West European city-region networks'', in Cities and Networks in Europe, Cattan, N., John Libbey Eurotext, Montrouge, France, 2007.
Pain, K., ''City of London Global Village: Understanding the Square Mile in a Post-Industrial World Economy'', in The Geo-Politics of the City, Barber, S., European Research Forum, London, UK, 2007.
Cook, G.A.S., Pandit, N.R., Beaverstock, J.V., Taylor, P.J. and Pain, K., ''The role of location in knowledge creation and diffusion: evidence of centripetal and centrifugal forces in the City of London financial services agglomeration'', Environment and Planning A, 39(6), 2007.
Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds), The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from mega-city regions in Europe, Earthscan, London, 2006.
Pain, K., ''Policy Challenges of Functional Polycentricity in a Global Mega-City Region: South East England'', Built Environment, 32(2), 2006.
Halbert, L., Pain, K. and Thierstein, A., ''European Polycentricity and Emerging Mega-City Regions - 'One size fits all' policy?'', Built Environment, 32(2), 2006.
Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Taylor, P.J., ''In London's long shadow: Frankfurt in the European space of flows'', in Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins, Amen, M., Archer, K. and Bosman, N.M., Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Md., 2006.
Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Taylor, P.J., ''Demystifying the Euro in European financial centre relations: London and Frankfurt, 2000-2001'', Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 13(2), 2005.
Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Taylor, P.J., ''London and Frankfurt: competition or synergy?'', in International Investor, Shearlock, P. (ed), Sovereign Publications, London, 2003.
Hoyler, M. and Pain, K., ''London and Frankfurt as world cities: changing local-global relations'', in Stadt und Region: Dynamik von Lebenswelten, Mayr, A., Meurer, M. and Vogt, J. (eds), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie, Leipzig, 2002.
Cochrane, A. and Pain, K., ''A Globalising Society?'', in A Globalising World? Culture, Economics, Politics, Held, D., Routledge, London, 2000 (second edition 2004).
Blowers, A. and Pain, K., ''The Unsustainable City?'', in Understanding Cities: Unruly Cities? Order/Disorder, Pile, S., Brook, C. and Mooney, G., Routledge, London, 1999.
Brook, C. and Pain, K. (eds), Understanding Cities: City Themes, The Open University, Milton Keynes, 1999.
