kathy Pain

Kathy Pain is a professorof real estate development and a research director in the University of Reading’sHenley Business School. She holds a PhD in geography and is a Corporate Member of the UK Royal Town Planning Instituteand a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She has publishedextensively on the sustainable economic and spatial development of globalmega-city regions. Her research has informedacademic and policy thinking in the UK, Europe, North America, the Middle Eastand Pacific Asia.

At The Young Foundation, London, Kathydirected the INTERREG IIIB 2003-06 North West Europe POLYNET: SustainableManagement of European Mega-City Regions study with Sir Peter Hall. She isco-author/editor of ThePolycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe published by Earthscan. AtReading, she was UK principal investigator for the EuropeanUnion 2010-12 European Spatial Observation Network study, TIGER – Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions.She is co-author/editor with Gilles Van Hamme of Changing Urban and Regional Relations in aGlobalizing World: Europe as a Global Macro-Region: http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Print_product_detail.lasso?id=15310. Her recent edited Major Works collection with JohnHarrison, ThePlanning and Governance of Cities inGlobalization has been published in the Routledge ‘Global Cities’Critical Concepts in Urban Studies series: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415671705/.