Kathy Pain
Professor
Real Estate Development
Henley Business School University of Reading
United Kingdom
Biography
Kathy’s research focuses on sustainable global city development, governance and planning in the contemporary networked world economy. She is a Co-Director of the international Globalization & World Cities (GaWC) Network heading up Global City Planning, http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/Pain.html), a Fellow of the Young Foundation, London (http://youngfoundation.org/people/kathy-pain/), and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) 'Vision for Cities' Global Sustainability Task Group (http://www.rics.org/uk/about-rics/commitment-sustainable-development/member-profiles/professor-kathy-pain-diptp-phd-mrtpi-frgs-uk/). Her research covers four interrelated theoretical-empirical strands: (i) urbanization, agglomeration and city integration in the networked world economy (ii) emergent functional and global urban location strategies of specialized international financial and linked business services networks; (iii) intersections between the global geographies of international financial services firms and real estate investment flows; (iv) global ‘mega-city region’ economic and spatial development, sustainability, governance and policy. Kathy's research has informed academic and policy thinking on urban and regional development processes in the UK, Europe, North America, the United Arab Emirates and the Pacific Asia region, including: the UK Treasury Fourth Economic Test for entry to Economic Monetary Union on the financial services industry and City wholesale markets; South East England Statutory Regional Policy Guidance Review; Canada's Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative; Mega-City Region development of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) China; United States Regional Plan Association, US ‘Mega-Regions’ research; New South Wales, Australia, Department of State and Regional Development Planning for the Sydney global city-region; the Abu Dhabi Council for Economic Development on Abu Dhabi global city development and sustainability; strategy for the East Asian Pan-Yellow Sea Region (PYSR).
Research Interest
Globalization and urban economic growth; sustainable mega-city region development; urban and regional policy, planning and governance.
Publications
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Brook, C. and Pain, K., eds. (1996) Understanding cities: city themes. Open University. ISBN 0749277815
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
