Professor Michael Pacione
Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Personal statement
I joined the University of Strathclyde in 1975. In 1990 I was appointed to the Chair of Geography. I have been Visiting Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada, and at the University of Vienna.
I have published research on a range of topics including land use conflict in the urban fringe; new settlements; ethnic minority settlement; environmental perception; residential satisfaction; local currencies; geographies of religious affiliation; critical analysis of urban policy; public participation in planning; sustainable urban development; poverty and disadvantage, and quality of life issues. I have a particular interest in urban geography in which an applied perspective has informed much of my work on identifying and explaining processes and patterns of socio-spatial change within contemporary cities.
I have published 25 books and 150 research papers in an international range of academic and professional journals. I have presented more than 100 conference papers and invited lectures at venues across the globe. I have served on the Council of the Institute of British Geographers; and on the management boards of several Commissions of the International Geographical Union; the Council and several committees of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society; and as Honorary President of the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers. I have also acted as academic advisor to government research councils in several countries, to universities, local community groups, and public and private research agencies.
Area of Expertise
Expertise
- Applied urban geography
- Urban policy and planning
- Cities in the contemporary world
- Sustainable urban development
- Quality of life
Prize And Awards
- The ‘highest research specific award’ of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society the internationally competitive Research Medal was awarded in recognition of my ‘outstanding contribution to geographical knowledge through research and publication’.
- Recipient
- 2009
- Awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- Recipient
- 2009
- Research Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- Recipient
- 2009
- Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- Recipient
- 2009
- Elected member of Management Board of International Geographical Union Commission on Urban Geography
- Recipient
- 2008
- Elected Honorary President of the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers
- Recipient
- 8/2006
Publications
- Residential differentiation in nineteenth-century Glasgow : morphogenetic study of Pollokshields garden suburb
- Pacione Michael
- Shapers of Urban Form (2014) (2014)
- The power of public participation in local planning in Scotland : the case of conflict over residential development in the metropolitan green belt
- Pacione Michael
- GeoJournal Vol 79, pp. 31-57 (2014)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-013-9477-y
- Private profit, public interest and land use planning : a conflict interpretation of residential development pressure in Glasgow's rural - urban fringe
- Pacione Michael
- Land Use Policy Vol 32, pp. 61–77 (2013)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.09.013
- Urban Sustainability in the United Kingdom
- Pacione Michael
- Urban Sustainability A Global Perspective (2012) (2012)
- The retirement village as a residential environment for the Third Age : the example of Firhall, Scotland
- Pacione Michael
- Scottish Geographical Journal Vol 128, pp. 148-168 (2012)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2012.721895
- Local money - a response to the globalisation of capitalism?
- Pacione Michael
- Quaestiones Geographicae Vol 30, pp. 9-19 (2011)
- https://doi.org/10.2478/v10117-011-0033-x
Teaching
My teaching interests focus on the fields of urban historical geography and applied urban geography.
Research Interests
I have a particular research interest and expertise in urban geography with the principal objective of identifying and explaining the processes and patterns of socio-spatial change within contemporary cities.
Recent research on urban issues includes work on post-growth urban society; sustainable urban development; conflict and public participation in local planning; residential differentiation in nineteenth century Glasgow; retirement villages as residential environments for the ‘third age’; the role of events in urban regeneration; local money as a response to the globalisation of capital; ethnic minorities; the geography of religious affiliation; gated communities; new settlements; and environments of disadvantage.
I am an acknowledged authority in the field of urban quality of life research in which I have focused particular attention to conditions at the disadvantaged end of the quality of life spectrum. I have published both conceptual and empirical work on the identification, measurement and socio-spatial distribution and effects of differential life quality in contemporary cities.
I also have a long-standing research interest in on the changing geography of the city of Glasgow, and in comparative urbanisation. My trans-national perspective on contemporary Urban Geography is demonstrated by publication of several books on the theme, including an internationally acclaimed book on Urban Geography: A Global Perspective.
Professional Activities
- International Conference on Challenges of Extended Mega-Urban Regions
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 2013
- International Council of Shopping Centres, Global Real Estate Conference
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 2013
- Annual Conference of the Human Geographical Society of Japan
- Participant
- 2012
- Geographical Review of Japan (Journal)
- Editorial board member
- 2011
- Scottish Government (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2011
- International Seminar on Post-Industrial Urban Regeneration Strategies, DITER, Polytechnic of Torino, Italy.
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 11/2010
Contact
Professor
Michael
Pacione
Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: m.pacione@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted