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Kathy Pain

Professor of Real Estate Development

Research Excellence Framework (REF) Lead

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Specialisms

  • Associations between city-region economic and spatial development, sustainability and policy., 
  • International business services agglomeration and city integration in the networked world economy;, 
  • Intersections between the location strategies and practices of international financial and business services, and commercial real estate investment;

Location

HBS 220, Whiteknights campus

Kathy’s research investigates the changing economic and spatial relations of cities and regions under conditions of contemporary globalization and the challenges for sustainable development and policy. She is a Co-Director of the Globalization & World Cities (GaWC) Research Network leading GaWC’s Global City Planning research. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the UK ESRC Peer Review College.

Kathy has engaged with private and public sector organisations in the UK, Europe, North America, the Middle East and the Pacific Asia region. Her research on the sustainable management of polycentric mega-city regions with Sir Peter Hall, published in The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from mega-city regions in Europe (ISBN-10 1-84407-329-7), has informed policy thinking worldwide. She led the cities research in the European Spatial Observation Network study, the Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions. Her recent research for the Urban Land Institute and New Climate Economy into the association between sustainable urban density and risk-adjusted real estate investment returns is being drawn on in a current 6-years UK Prevent Partnership study on how human health evidence can inform real estate investment social impact performance and counter spatial health inequity.

Kathy has served on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) 'Vision for Cities' Global Sustainability Task Group, the UK Smart Cities All Party Parliamentary Group, the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership Industrial Productivity Commission, and the Institut Louis Bachelier Business School Scientific Council, Paris, and she is an expert advisor to government and research institutes across China.

Qualifications

  • PhD Geography (Reading)
  • Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society / Institute of British Geographers
  • Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Diploma in Town Planning
  • RTPI Corporate Member
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

Current PhD students

Ijeoma Emeghe: Housing Quality and Mental Well-being Valuation. First supervisor

Jane Bennett: Neuro-atypical navigation: Can mapping Reading’s sensescape of pedestrian urban spaces improve the user experience of neurodivergent adult women? Second supervisor

Selected Publications

Burnett, A. and Pain, K. (2023) Linking environmental and human health in English urban development decision-making: the human health literacy of environmental policy. Built Environment, 49 (2). pp. 187-206. ISSN 0263-7960

Emeghe, I. J. and Pain, K. (2023) Mental wellbeing, housing provision and social valuation in a United Kingdom context: a planning issue? Built Environment: Urban Planning and Public Health Special Issue., 49 (2). pp. 286-303. ISSN 0263-7960

Kwon, H. R. and Pain, K. (2023) Searching for health and wellbeing: commercial real estate actor encounters with planning in the urban decision-making ‘Black box’. Built Environment, 49 (2). pp. 229-247. ISSN 0263-7960

Wong, C., Pain, K., Kwon, H. R. and Koksal, C. (2023) Urban planning and public health. Built Environment, 49 (2). pp. 157-165. ISSN 0263-7960

Pain, K., Shu, S., Black, D., Blower, J., Grimmond, S., Hunt, A., Milcheva, S., Crawford, B., Dale, N., Doolin, S. and Manna, S. (2023) Real estate investment and urban density: exploring the polycentric urban region using a topological lens. Territory, Politics, Governance, 11 (2). pp. 241-260. ISSN 2162-268X

Shi, S., Pain, K. and Chen, X., Looking into mobility in the Covid-19 ‘eye of the storm’: Simulating virus spread and urban resilience in the Wuhan city region travel flow network, 2022, Cities: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.citi...

Zhu, B., Pain, K., Derudder, B., Taylor, P. Exploring External Urban Relational Processes: Inter-city Financial Flows complementing Global City-Regions, Regional Studies, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1921136.

Pain, K., Shi, S. Cities, Networks, Polycentrism: Examining the place of polycentrism in spaces of flows, Cities and Networks Handbook, Neal, Z., Rozenblat, C. (eds.), 2021 Cheltenham, Edward Elgar. ISBN 978 1 78811 471 4.

Pain, K., Shi, S., Black, D., Blower, B., Grimmond, S., Hunt, A., Milcheva, S. Crawford, B., Dale, N., Doolin, S., Manna, S. Real estate investment and urban density: Exploring the PUR territorial governance agenda using a topological lens, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2020.1837665

Pain, K. and Shi, S. (2021) Cities, networks, polycentrism – examining the place of polycentrism in spaces of flows. In: Neal, Z. P. and Rozenblat, C. (eds.) Handbook of Cities and Networks. Research Handbooks in Urban Studies series. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 493-510. ISBN 9781788114714

Reference: Black, D., Bates, G., Gibson, A., Pain, K. , Rosenberg, G. and White, J. (2025) What is “good” co-production in the context of planetary health research, and how is it enabled? Earth System Governance, 23. 100229. ISSN 2589-8116 doi: 10.1016/j.esg.2024.100229
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Reference: Black, D., Bates, G., Callway, R., Pain, K. and Kirton-Darling, E. (2024) Short-termism in urban development: the commercial determinants of planetary health. Earth System Governance, 22. 100220. ISSN 2589-8116 doi: 10.1016/j.esg.2024.100220
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Reference: Pain, K. , Zhu, B. , Deudder, B. and Taylor, P. J. (2024) The spatial interlocking of commercial office real estate and advanced producer services: a central flow theory lens. International Journal of Urban Sciences. ISSN 2161-6779 doi: 10.1080/12265934.2024.2358092
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Reference: Wong, C., Pain, K. , Kwon, H. R. and Koksal, C. (2023) Urban planning and public health. Built Environment, 49 (2). pp. 157-165. ISSN 0263-7960
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Emeghe, I. J. and Pain, K. (2023) Mental wellbeing, housing provision and social valuation in a United Kingdom context: a planning issue? Built Environment: Urban Planning and Public Health Special Issue., 49 (2). pp. 286-303. ISSN 0263-7960
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Kwon, H. R. and Pain, K. (2023) Searching for health and wellbeing: commercial real estate actor encounters with planning in the urban decision-making ‘Black box’. Built Environment, 49 (2). pp. 229-247. ISSN 0263-7960
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Burnett, A. and Pain, K. (2023) Linking environmental and human health in English urban development decision-making: the human health literacy of environmental policy. Built Environment, 49 (2). pp. 187-206. ISSN 0263-7960
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Reference: Shi, S., Pain, K. and Chen, X. (2022) Looking into mobility in the Covid-19 ‘eye of the storm’: simulating virus spread and urban resilience in the Wuhan city region travel flow network. Cities, 126. 103675. ISSN 0264-2751 doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103675
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Reference: Zhu, B. , Pain, K. , Taylor, P. J. and Derudder, B. (2022) Exploring external urban relational processes: inter-city financial flows complementing global city-regions. Regional Studies, 56 (5). pp. 737-750. ISSN 1360-0591 doi: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1921136
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Reference: Black, D., Ayres, S., Bondy, K., Brierley, R., Campbell, R., Carhart, N., Coggon, J., Eaton, E., Fichera, E., Gibson, A., Hatleskog, E. , Hickman, M., Hicks, B., Hunt, A., Pain, K. , Pearce, N., Pilkington, P., Rosenburg, G. and Scally, G. (2022) Tackling root causes upstream of unhealthy urban development (TRUUD): protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium. Wellcome Open Research, 6. 30. ISSN 2398-502X doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16382.1
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Reference: Pain, K. , Shu, S., Black, D., Blower, J. , Grimmond, S. , Hunt, A., Milcheva, S. , Crawford, B. , Dale, N., Doolin, S. and Manna, S. (2023) Real estate investment and urban density: exploring the polycentric urban region using a topological lens. Territory, Politics, Governance, 11 (2). pp. 241-260. ISSN 2162-268X doi: 10.1080/21622671.2020.1837665
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Reference: Pain, K. and Shi, S. (2021) Cities, networks, polycentrism – examining the place of polycentrism in spaces of flows. In: Neal, Z. P. and Rozenblat, C. (eds.) Handbook of Cities and Networks. Research Handbooks in Urban Studies series. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 493-510. ISBN 9781788114714
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Reference: Black, D., Bates, G., Gibson, A., Hatleskog, E. , Fichera, E., Hathchard, J., Nazmul, H., Rosenberg, J., Larkin, C., Brierley, R., Kidger, J., Bondy, K., Hickman, M., Pain, K. , Hicks, B., Scally, G., Verma, A., Carhart, N., Pilkington, P., Hunt, A. and Ireland, P. (2021) Pandemics, vulnerability and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk? Cities and Health, 5 (sup1). pp. 593-596. ISSN 2374-8842 doi: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480
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Reference: Shuai, S. and Pain, K. (2020) Investigating China’s Mid-Yangtze River economic growth region using a spatial network growth model. Urban Studies, 57 (14). pp. 2973-2993. ISSN 1360-063X doi: 10.1177/0042098019894232
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Reference: Derudder, B. and Pain, K. , (2018) ‘Global Chengdu’: an analysis of Chengdu's position in the global economy - a report to the city of Chengdu. GaWC Projects. 105. Report. Globalization & World Cities Research Network, Loughborough, UK. pp58.
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Reference: Pain, K. , Black, D., Blower, J. , Grimmond, S. , Hunt, A., Milcheva, S. , Crawford, B. , Dale, N., Doolin, S. , Manna, S. , Shi, S. and Pugh, R. , (2018) Supporting smart urban growth: successful investing in density. Report. Urban Land Institute
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Reference: Shia, S., Wall, R. and Pain, K. (2019) Exploring the significance of domestic investment for foreign direct investment in China: a city-network approach. Urban Studies, 56 (12). pp. 2447-2464. ISSN 1360-063X doi: 10.1177/0042098018795977
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Reference: Barlow, J. , Best, M., Bohnenstengel, S. I., Clark, P. , Grimmond, S. , Lean, H., Christen, A., Emeis, S., Haeffelin, M., Harman, I. N., Lemonsu, A., Martilli, A., Pardyjak, E., Rotach, M. W., Ballard, S., Boutle, I., Brown, A., Cai, X., Carpentieri, M., Coceal, O. , Crawford, B. , Di Sabatino, S., Dou, J., Drew, D. R. , Edwards, J. M., Fallmann, J., Fortuniak, K., Gornall, J., Gronemeier, T., Halios, C. , Hertwig, D. , Hirano, K., Holtslag, A. A.M., Luo, Z. , Mills, G., Nakayoshi, M., Pain, K. , Schlünzen, K. H., Smith, S. , Soulhac, L., Steeneveld, G.-J., Sun, T. , Theeuwes, N. , Thomson, D., Voogt, J. A., Ward, H. C., Xie, Z.-T. and Zhong, J. (2017) Developing a research strategy to better understand, observe, and simulate urban atmospheric processes at kilometer to subkilometer scales. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98 (10). ES261-ES264. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0106.1
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Reference: Shi, S., Wall, R. and Pain, K. (2017) The conjunction of networked agglomeration and location factor in Chinese cities: taking FDI and domestic investment as an example. In: Ni, P., Kamiya, M. and Ding, R. (eds.) Cities Network along the Silk Road: The Global Competitiveness Report 2017. Springer Nature, Singapore, pp. 235-267. ISBN 9789811048333
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Reference: Pain, K. , Devaney, S. and Akakandelwa, N. (2016) Social networks and sales transactions in South African office markets. In: 16th AfRES Annual Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, pp. 291-312.
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Reference: Pain, K. (2017) The challenges for effective governance of real estate development in a future urban world. In: Squires, G., Heurkens, E. and Peiser, R. (eds.) Routledge Companion to Real Estate Development. Routledge Companions. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781138914346
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Reference: Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Taylor, P.J. (2005) Demystifying the Euro in European financial centre relations: London and Frankfurt, 2000-2001. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 13 (2). ISSN 1478-2790 doi: 10.1080/14782800500180268
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Reference: Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Taylor, P.J., (2001) Comparing London and Frankfurt as world cities: A relational study of urban change. Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society
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Reference: Taylor, A.J., Beaverstock, J.V., Cook, G., Pandit, N. and Pain, K. , (2003) Financial Services Clustering and its significance for London. Corporation of London, London.
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Reference: Pain, K. (2017) Megaregions imaginaries: excursions through a dialectical maze. The Geographical Review, 107 (3). pp. 536-550. ISSN 1931-0846 doi: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2016.12171.x
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Reference: Pain, K. (2013) Cities, regulation and boundaries: what role for the English state? In: Mobilizing Regions: Territorial Strategies for Growth. Regional Studies Association, London, pp. 89-91. ISBN 9781897721452
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Reference: Adams, D., Larkham, P. and Pain, K. (2015) Re-evaluating the place of urban planning history. Town Planning Review, 86 (4). pp. 373-379. ISSN 1478-341X doi: 10.3828/tpr.2015.24
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Reference: Pain, K. , Van Hamme, G., Vinciguerra, S. and David, Q. (2016) Global networks, cities and economic performance: Observations from an analysis of cities in Europe and the USA. Urban Studies, 53 (6). pp. 1137-1161. ISSN 0042-0980 doi: 10.1177/0042098015577303
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Reference: Pain, K. (2017) World cities. In: Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M. F., Kobayashi, A. L., Liu, W. and Marston, R. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 1-9. ISBN 9780470659632 doi: 10.1002/9781118786352
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Reference: Cochrane, A. and Pain, K. (2000) A globalising society? In: Held, D. (ed.) A Globalising World? Culture, Economics, Politics. Ist Edition. Routledge. ISBN 041522294X
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Reference: Pain, K. (2006) Policy challenges of functional polycentricity in a global mega-city Region: South East England. Built Environment, 32 (2). pp. 194-205. ISSN 0263-7960
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Reference: Blowers, A. and Pain, K. (1999) The unsustainable city? In: Pile, S., Brook, C. and Mooney, G. (eds.) Understanding Cities: Unruly Cities? Order/Disorder. Routledge. ISBN 0415200733
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Reference: Brook, C. and Pain, K. (1999) Postscript. In: Brook, C. and Pain, K. (eds.) Understanding Cities: City Themes. The Open University. ISBN 0749277815
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Reference: Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Taylor, P.J. (2001) The euro is not a trigger in changing relations between London and Frankfurt. In: Larsen, L.B. and House, F. (eds.) Evaluation and EU Regional Policy. Regional Studies Association. ISBN 1897721196
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Reference: Hoyler, M. and Pain, K. (2001) London and Frankfurt as world cities: changing local-global relations. In: Mayr, A., Meurer, M. and Vogt, J. (eds.) Stadt und Region: Dynamik von Lebenswelten. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie, Leipzig. ISBN 3980875407
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Reference: Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M. and Pain, K. (2003) London and Frankfurt: competition or synergy? In: Shearlock, P. (ed.) International Investor. Sovereign Publications, London, pp. 225-229. ISBN 1903605245
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Reference: Cochrane, A. and Pain, K. (2004) A globalising society? In: Held, D. (ed.) A Globalising World? Culture, Economics, Politics. 2nd edition. Taylor and Francis, pp. 5-45. ISBN 0415329736
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Reference: Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Taylor, P.J. (2006) In London's long shadow: Frankfurt in the European space of flows. In: Amen, M. M., Archer, K. and Bosman, N.M. (eds.) Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 23-47. ISBN 0742541223
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Reference: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (2006) From strategy to delivery: policy responses. In: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. Earthscan, London, pp. 197-211. ISBN 1844073297
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Reference: Pain, K. and Hall, P. (2006) South East England: global constellation. In: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. Earthscan, London, pp. 125-136. ISBN 1844073297
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Reference: Pain, K. and Hall, P. (2006) People and places: interrelating the space of flows and the space of places. In: The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. Earthscan, pp. 113-121.
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Reference: Pain, K. and Hall, P. (2006) Flows and relationships: internal and external linkages. In: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. Earthscan, pp. 104-112. ISBN 1844073297
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Reference: Pain, K. and Hall, P. (2006) Firms and places: inside the mega-city regions. In: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. Earthscan, pp. 91-103. ISBN 1844073297
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Reference: Hall, P., Pain, K. and Green, N. (2006) The informational geography of Europolis: mapping the flow of information. In: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. Earthscan, London, pp. 70-87. ISBN 1844073297
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Reference: Hall, P., Pain, K. and Kapoen, L. (2006) The connectivity of the European heartland. In: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. Earthscan, pp. 65-69. ISBN 1844073297
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Reference: Taylor, P., Evans, D. and Pain, K. (2006) Organisations of the polycentric metropolis: corporate structures and networks. In: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. Earthscan, pp. 53-64. ISBN 1844073297
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Reference: Hall, P., Pain, K. and Green, N. (2006) Anatomy of the polycentric metropolis: eight mega-city regions in overview. In: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. Earthscan, London, pp. 19-52. ISBN 1844073297
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Reference: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (2006) From metropolis to polyopolis. In: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. Earthscan, London, pp. 3-16. ISBN 1844073297
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Reference: Pain, K. (2007) City of London global village: understanding the square mile in a post-industrial world economy. In: Barber, S. (ed.) The Geo-Politics of the City. European Research Forum, London, pp. 19-38. ISBN 9781844073290
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Reference: Pain, K. (2007) Integrating the European space-flows and places in North West European city-region networks. In: Cattan, N. (ed.) Cities and networks in Europe: a critical approach of polycentrism. Editions John Libbey Eurotext, pp. 161-171. ISBN 9782742006779
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Reference: Halbert, L., Pain, K. and Thierstein, A. (2006) European polycentricity and emerging mega-city regions - 'one size fits all' policy? Built Environment, 32 (2). pp. 206-218. ISSN 0263-7960 doi: 10.2148/benv.32.2.206
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Reference: Cook, G. A. S., Pandit, N. R., Beaverstock, J. V., Taylor, P. J. and Pain, K. (2007) 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). pp. 1325-1345. ISSN 1472-3409 doi: 10.1068/a37380
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Reference: Pain, K. and Van Hamme, G. (2014) Europe in the global economy – policy at a crossroads. In: Pain, K. and Van Hamme, G. (eds.) Changing Urban and Regional Relations in a Globalizing World: Europe as a Global Macro-Region. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 200-222. ISBN 9781782544647
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Reference: Pain, K. , Van Hamme, G. and Vinciguerra, S. (2014) Territorial performance and position in the global economy. In: Pain, K. and Van Hamme, G. (eds.) Changing Urban and Regional Relations in a Globalizing World: Europe as a Global Macro-Region. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 183-199. ISBN 9781782544647
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Reference: Hoyler, M., Lizieri, C. M. , Pain, K. , Taylor, P., Vinciguerra, S. , Derudder, B. and Pelckmans, D. (2014) European cities in advanced producer services and real estate capital flows: a dynamic perspective. In: Pain, K. and Van Hamme, G. (eds.) Changing Urban and Regional Relations in a Globalizing World: Europe as a Global Macro-Region. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 115-137. ISBN 9781782544647
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Reference: Ducruet, C., Jurie, V., Le Cam, M., Pain, K. , Sainteville, M., Vinciguerra, S. , Van Hamme, G. and Wertz, I. (2014) European cities in global networks. In: Pain, K. and Van Hamme, G. (eds.) Changing Urban and Regional Relations in a Globalizing World: Europe as a Global Macro-Region. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 103-114. ISBN 9781782544647
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Reference: Pain, K. , Richard, Y. and Van Hamme, G. (2014) Europe as a global actor – between decline and inconsistency. In: Pain, K. and Van Hamme, G. (eds.) Changing Urban and Regional Relations in a Globalizing World: Europe as a Global Macro-Region. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 27-53. ISBN 9781782544647
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Reference: Pain, K. and Van Hamme, G. (2014) Theoretical and methodological challenges. In: Pain, K. and Van Hamme, G. (eds.) Changing Urban and Regional Relations in a Globalizing World: Europe as a Global Macro-Region. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 3-26. ISBN 9781782544647
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Reference: Taylor, P. J., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Vinciguerra, S. (2014) Extensive and intensive globalizations: explicating the low connectivity puzzle of U.S. cities using a city-dyad analysis. Journal of Urban Affairs, 36 (5). pp. 876-890. ISSN 1467-9906 doi: 10.1111/juaf.12077
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Reference: Pain, K. (2012) Intersections between globalisation and development: mega-city regions, spatial conceptualisation and strategic planning. In: Polycentric regions facing global challenges: a role for strategic spatial planning, 8 Oct 2010, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 176-185.
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Reference: Lizieri, C. M. , Pain, K. and Vinciguerra, S. (2012) Real estate investment flows. In: TIGER: Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions. European Spatial Observation Network, Luxembourg, pp53. ISBN 9782960046762
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Reference: Pain, K. and Vinciguerra, S. (2012) The London case study. In: TIGER: Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions. European Spatial Observation Network, Luxembourg. ISBN 9782960046762
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Reference: Van Hamme, G., Pain, K. and Vinciguerra, S. (2012) Cities, networks and economic performances: a comparative study on European and US cities. In: TIGER: Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions. European Spatial Observation Network, Luxembourg, pp12. ISBN 9782960046762
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Reference: Pain, K. , Vinciguerra, S. , Hoyler, M. and Taylor, P. (2012) Europe in the world city network. In: TIGER: Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions. European Spatial Observation Network, Luxembourg, pp142. ISBN 9782960046762
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Reference: Van Hamme, G., Pain, K. , Didelon, C., Vérité, S., Richard, Y., Sainteville, M., Ducruet, C., Eliot, E., Le Cam, M., Jurie, V., de Ruffray, S., Joly, O., Baldini, F., Montanari, A., Staniscia, B., Karlsson, C., Norman, T., Warda, P., Gråsjö, U., Roukova, P., Varbanov, M. and Ravnachk, A., (2012) TIGER: Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions. Applied Research. 2013/1/1. Report. European Spatial Observation Network, Luxembourg. pp68. ISBN 9782960046762
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Reference: Lizieri, C. and Pain, K. (2014) International office investment in global cities: the production of financial space and systemic risk. Regional Studies, 48 (3). pp. 439-455. ISSN 1360-0591 doi: 10.1080/00343404.2012.753434 (special Issue: Finance, business property and urban and regional development)
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Reference: Harrison, J. and Pain, K. (2012) Introduction. In: Harrison, J. and Pain, K. (eds.) Global cities, volume IV: planning and governance of cities in globalization. Routledge, London, pp. 1-9. ISBN 9780415671705
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Reference: Crampton, G. R. , Francis-Brophy, E. , Meen, G. , Nygaard, C., Pain, K. and Wadeson, N. , (2010) The Reading Diamond Local Economic Assessment. Report. University of Reading/Reading Diamond Forum, Reading. pp105.
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Reference: Mahroum, S., Huggins, R., Clayton, N., Pain, K. and Taylor, P., (2008) Innovation by adoption: measuring and mapping absorptive capacity in UK nations and regions. Report. National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, London. pp108. ISBN 9781848750296
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Reference: Pain, K. , (2012) Locational investment: where to target investment for maximum economic returns. RICS Research. Report. Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
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Reference: Pain, K. (2008) City regions and economic development. In: Johnson, C., Hu, R. and Abedin, S. (eds.) Connecting cities: city-regions. Connecting cities. Metropolis, Sydney, Australia, pp. 20-47. ISBN 9780734752765
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. (2010) The emerging metacity in north western Europe and policy ramifications for sustainable transport networks. In: Mo, C. and Kim, Y. H. (eds.) The emerging cross-border mega-city region and sustainable transportation. KOTI-EWC special report (2010). East-West Center/Korea Transport Institute,, Gyeonggi, pp. 2-27. ISBN 9788955034059
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. (2010) Emerging cross-border metacity in the Pan Yellow Sea Region. In: Mo, C. and Kim, Y.H. (eds.) The emerging cross-border mega-city region and sustainable transportation. KOTI-EWC 2010 Special Report. Korea Transport Institute, Gyeonggi, South Korea, pp. 297-307. ISBN 9788955034059
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. (2011) Cities and sustainability: reflections on a decade of world development. In: Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Taylor, P. J. and Witlox, F. (eds.) International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities. Elgar original reference. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. ISBN 9781848446472
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Reference: Pain, K. (2011) Spatial transformations of cities: global city region? Mega-city region? In: Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Taylor, P. J. and Witlox, F. (eds.) International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities. Elgar original reference. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. ISBN 9781848446472
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Reference: Pain, K. (2008) Policy challenges of functional polycentricity in a global mega-city region South East England. Urban Planning International, 23 (1). pp. 58-64. ISSN 1003-0956
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (2008) From strategy to delivery: policy responses. Urban Planning International, 23 (1). pp. 28-40. ISSN 1003-0956
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Hall, P. and Pain, K. (2008) From metropolis to polyopolis. Urban Planning International, 23 (1). pp. 15-27. ISSN 1003-0956
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Taylor, P., Evans, D. and Pain, K. (2008) Application of the inter-locking network model to mega city-regions: measuring polycentricity within and beyond city-Regions. Regional Studies, 42 (8). pp. 1079-1093. ISSN 1360-0591 doi: 10.1080/00343400701874214 (special issue 'Globalization, City-Regions and Polycentricity in North-West Europe ')
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. and Hall, P. (2008) Informational quantity versus informational quality: the perils of navigating the space of flows. Regional Studies, 42 (8). pp. 1065-1077. ISSN 1360-0591 doi: 10.1080/00343400701808865 (special issue 'Globalization, City-Regions and Polycentricity in North-West Europe')
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. (2008) Examining core-periphery relationships in a global mega-city region: the case of London and South East England. Regional Studies, 42 (8). pp. 1161-1172. ISSN 1360-0591 doi: 10.1080/00343400701808857 (special issue 'Globalization, City-Regions and Polycentricity in North-West Europe ')
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. (2008) Spaces of practice in advanced business services: rethinking London-Frankfurt relations. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26 (2). pp. 264-279. ISSN 0263-7758 doi: 10.1068/d410t
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. (2011) Form follows finance. Modus. pp. 16-21.
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Taylor, P. J., Ni, P. F., Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Huang, J., Lu, F., Pain, K. , Yang, X., Witlox, F., Bassens, D. and Shen, W. (2009) 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, 41 (1). pp. 7-12. ISSN 0308-518X doi: 10.1068/a41318
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Taylor, P. J., Evans, D. M., Hoyler, M., Derudder, B. and Pain, K. (2009) The UK space economy as practised by advanced producer service firms: identifying two distinctive polycentric city-regional processes in contemporary Britain. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33 (3). pp. 700-718. ISSN 1468-2427 doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00857.x
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. (2009) Outsourcing and offshoring in business services - new dynamics, new territorial opportunities? Regions Magazine, 274 (Summer). pp. 11-13. ISSN 1367-3882
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. (2009) Londres, the place to be. Les Grand Dossiers de Sciences Humaines, 17. pp. 30-32. ISSN 1777-375X
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Halbert, L. and Pain, K. (2010) Services globaux, géographies locales : les services aux entreprises dans les métropoles de Londres et Paris. Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography (510). ISSN 1278-3366
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. (2011) 'New worlds’ for ‘old’? Twenty-first century gateways and corridors: reflections on a European spatial perspective. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35 (6). pp. 1154-1174. ISSN 1468-2427 doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.01005.x
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Knox, P. L. and Pain, K. (2010) Globalization, neoliberalism and international homogeneity in architecture and urban development. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, 2010 (5/6). pp. 417-428. ISSN 0303-2493
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. and Ardinat, G. (2010) French cities. In: Taylor, P.J., Ni, P., Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Huang, J. and Witlox, F. (eds.) Global urban analysis: a survey of cities in globalization. Earthscan, London, UK, pp. 231-244. ISBN 9781849712132
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Taylor, P.J., Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Witlox, F. (2010) European cities in globalization. In: Taylor, P.J., Ni, P., Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Huang, J. and Witlox, F. (eds.) Global urban analysis: a survey of cities in globalization. Earthscan, London, UK, pp. 114-136. ISBN 9781849712132
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Vinciguerra, S. , Taylor, P.J., Hoyler, M. and Pain, K. (2010) Contemporary mappa mundi: American exceptionalism in the world city network. Environment and Planning A, 42 (6). pp. 1271-1272. ISSN 0308-518X doi: 10.1068/a4352
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Taylor, P.J., Ni, P., Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Huang, J., Pain, K. , Witlox, F., Yang, X., Bassens, D. and Shen, W. (2010) Command and control centres in the world economy. In: Taylor, P.J., Ni, P., Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Huang, J. and Witlox, F. (eds.) Global urban analysis: a survey of cities in globalization. Earthscan, London, UK, pp. 17-21. ISBN 9781849712132
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Kathy Pain
Reference: Pain, K. and Prentice, B.E. (2010) Canadian cities. In: Taylor, P.J., Ni, P., Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Huang, J. and Witlox, F. (eds.) Global urban analysis: a survey of cities in globalization. Earthscan, London, UK, pp. 251-255. ISBN 9781849712132
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Kathy Pain

Cities, Regions and Strategic Governance

The module prepares students for planning and development leadership roles. Students will gain understanding of the conceptual and practical challenges faced in applying the principles of strategic planning in dynamic...

Module code: REMP32

Medical Research Council UKPRP, ‘Tackling the Root Causes of Unhealthy Planning, Economics and Decision-making: An Urban Systems Approach, (TRUED Urban Systems)’, 2019-2014.

China Municipal Government / National Business Daily, ‘Global Chengdu: An Analysis of Chengdu’s Position in the Global Economy’, 2018.

Urban Land Institute / New Climate Economy, ‘Supporting Smart Urban Growth: Successful Investing in Density’, 2016-17.

European Spatial Observation Network (ESPON), Continental Territorial Structures and Flows (Globalization): ‘TIGER: Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions’, 2010–2012.

Reading Community Interest Company / Reading Diamond Forum, ‘The Reading Diamond Local Economic Assessment’, 2010.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), ‘Benchmarking the World City Network: City Connectivities on the Eve of the Financial Crisis’, 2009–2010.

National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, ‘Project to map and measure the absorptive capacity of UK cities and regions’, 2008.

European Commission INTERREG IIIB North-West Europe, ‘POLYNET: Sustainable Management of European Polycentric Mega-City Regions’, 2003-2006.