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Professor Donald McNeill
Donald McNeill is Professor of Urban and Cultural Geography, joining the Institute for Culture and Society in 2011, having previously held positions at the Urban Research Centre at UWS, King’s College London, Southampton and Strathclyde. He is a recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, in the field of ‘Governing Digital Cities’, running from 2012 to 2016. For information on this project see the Governing Digital Cities page.
His work is located at the intersection of human geography, economic sociology, spatial planning, and urban design and architecture, with a particular interest in the political and cultural economy of globalization and cities. He is currently working with colleagues on ARC grants about the future of Sydney’s Chinatown, and on the social history of air-conditioning in Southeast Asia, and has recently completed an ARC Discovery project, ‘The production and contestation of airport territory’ (2008-2010).
He has published widely in human geography and urban studies, and his books include The Global Architect: Firms, Fame and Urban Form (Routledge, 2008), New Europe: Imagined Spaces (Arnold, 2004), and Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona (Routledge, 1999).
Qualifications
PhD, 1999, University of Wales, Cardiff
Masters in Civic Design, 1994, University of Liverpool
MA Hons. Politics, 1991, University of Glasgow
Honours and Awards
2011-13: Special Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
2010: Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University
2005: Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellow, National University of Singapore
2002: Macquarie University Research Grant, Visiting Scholarship
Grants
2012-16: D. McNeill, ‘Governing Digital Cities’, Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, $834,770.
2012-15: I. Ang, D. McNeill, K. Anderson, ‘Sydney’s Chinatown in the Asian Century: from ethnic enclave to global hub’, Australian Research Council Linkage Project, $254,553.
2012-14: T. Winter, D. McNeill, J. Widodo, J. Chang, ‘Cool Living Heritage in Southeast Asia: Sustainable Alternatives to Air-Conditioned Cities’, Australian Research Council Discovery Project, $195,000.
2008-10: D. McNeill, ‘The production and contestation of airport territory’, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, $185,000.
Selected Publications
Books
McNeill, D. 1999, Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona, London: Routledge.
McNeill, D. 2004, New Europe: Imagined Spaces, London: Arnold.
McNeill, D. 2008, The Global Architect: Firms, Fame and Urban Form, New York: Routledge.
Latham, A., McCormack, D., McNamara, K. and McNeill, D. 2009, Key Concepts in Urban Geography, London: Sage.
Book Chapters
McNeill, D. and McNamara, K. 2010, 'The Cultural Economy of the Boutique Hotel: The Case of the Schrager and W Hotels in New York', in, Goodman, M. K., Goodman, D. and Redclift, M. (eds), Consuming Space: Placing Consumption in Perspective, Farnham: Ashgate, pp 147-160.
McNeill, D. and Tewdwr-Jones, M. 2010, 'Michael Dear', in, Hubbard, P. and Kitchin, R. (eds), Key Thinkers on Space and Place, London: Sage, pp 134-140.
McNeill, D. 2010, 'Mike Davis', in, Hubbard, P. and Kitchin, R. (eds), Key Thinkers on Space and Place, London: Sage, pp 127-133.
Edited Collections
McNeill, D. 2009, Major Works – Urban Studies, volume 3 (Life and Culture of Cities), London: Sage.
Selected Journal Papers
Davidson, M. and McNeill, D. 2012, ‘The redevelopment of Olympic sites: Examining the legacy of Sydney Olympic Park’, Urban Studies, 49(8): 1625-41.
McNamara, K. and McNeill, D. 2012, ‘The life and death of great hotels: modernity, disrepair and demolition in Sydney’s “The Australia”’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 37(1): 149-63.
McNamara, K. and McNeill, D. 2012, ‘The city personified: the geopolitical narratives of Rudy Giuliani’, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 9(3) 259-78.
McNeill, D. 2011, ‘Fine grain, global city: Jan Gehl, public space and commercial culture in central Sydney’, Journal of Urban Design, 16(2): 161-78.
Faulconbridge, J. and McNeill, D. 2010, 'Geographies of Space Design', Environment and Planning A, 42(12): 2820-2823.
McNeill, D. 2010, ‘Behind the “Heathrow hassle”: a political and cultural economy of the privatized airport’, Environment and Planning A, 42(12): 2859-2873.
McNeill, D. 2008, ‘The hotel and the city’, Progress in Human Geography, 32(3): 383-98.
McNeill, D. 2007, ‘Office buildings and the signature architect: Piano and Foster in Sydney’, Environment and Planning A, 39: 487-501.
McNeill, D. 2005, ‘In search of the global architect: the case of Norman Foster (and Partners)’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29(3): 501-515.
McNeill, D. 2005, ‘Skyscraper Geography’, Progress in Human Geography, 29(1): 41-55.
McNeill, D., Dowling, R. and Fagan, R. 2005, ‘Sydney/global/city: an exploration’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29(4): 935-944.
McNeill, D. 2003, ‘Rome, Global city? Church, State and the Jubilee 2000', Political Geography, 22: 535-56.
McNeill, D. 2001, ‘Barcelona as imagined community: Pasqual Maragall’s spaces of engagement’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 26: 340-52.
McNeill, D. 2000, ‘McGuggenisation: globalisation and national identity in the Basque country’, Political Geography, 19: 473-494.
