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Overview

Eugene McCann is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada and specializes in Social Sciences with a focus on several interconnected subfields. Their research contributions span Plant Science, Political Science and International Relations, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions, and Urban Studies.

Their work addresses multiple main topics, including:

  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
  • Organic Food and Agriculture

McCann's recent publications demonstrate a focus on urban environments, sustainability, and social issues. Notable papers include:

  • Mobilizing 'impermaculture': Temporary urban agriculture and the sustainability fix, 2022, Environment and Planning E Nature and Space
  • Mobilising a counterhegemonic idea: Empathy, evidence, and experience in the campaign for a Supervised Drug Injecting Facility (SIF) in Dublin, Ireland, 2022, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • "Hot+Noisy" Public Space: Conviviality, "Unapologetic Asianness," and the Future of Vancouver's Chinatown, 2023, Urban Planning

Other important works coauthored within their field include:

  • The City Under COVID-19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology, 2020, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
  • GOVERNING URBAN AGRICULTURE: Formalization, Resistance and Re-visioning in Two 'Green' Cities, 2021, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

McCann frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Nathan McClintock
  • Christiana Miewald
  • Dallas Rogers
  • Miles Herbert
  • Carolyn Whitzman

The scholar has published multiple works in leading venues such as Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Environment and Planning E Nature and Space, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Best Publications

  • Urban Policy Mobilities and Global Circuits of Knowledge: Toward a Research Agenda

    Eugene McCann

  • Mobile urbanism : cities and policymaking in the global age

    Eugene McCann;Kevin Ward;Allan Cochrane

  • Assembling Urbanism: Following Policies and ‘Studying Through’ the Sites and Situations of Policy Making

    Eugene McCann;Kevin Ward

  • Relationality/territoriality: Toward a conceptualization of cities in the world

    Eugene McCann;Kevin Ward

  • Expertise, truth, and urban policy mobilities: global circuits of knowledge in the development of Vancouver, Canada's 'four pillar' drug strategy

    Eugene J McCann

  • Policy Assemblages, Mobilities and Mutations: Toward a Multidisciplinary Conversation

    Eugene McCann;Kevin Ward

  • Geographies of Policy Mobilities

    Cristina Temenos;Eugene McCann

  • Inequality and Politics in the Creative City-Region: Questions of Livability and State Strategy

    Eugene J. McCANN

  • Policy Boosterism, Policy Mobilities, and the Extrospective City

    Eugene J. McCann

  • 'Best Places': Interurban Competition, Quality of Life and Popular Media Discourse:

    Eugene J. McCann

  • A multi-disciplinary approach to policy transfer research: geographies, assemblages, mobilities and mutations

    Eugene McCann;Kevin Ward

  • Race, Protest, and Public Space: Contextualizing Lefebvre in the U.S. City

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  • The Local Politics of Policy Mobility: Learning, Persuasion, and the Production of a Municipal Sustainability Fix

    Cristina Temenos;Eugene McCann

  • The cultural politics of local economic development: meaning-making, place-making, and the urban policy process

    Eugene J McCann

  • Framing Space and Time in the City: Urban Policy and the Politics of Spatial and Temporal Scale

    Eugene J. McCann

  • Collaborative Visioning or Urban Planning as Therapy? The Politics of Public-Private Policy Making

    Eugene J. McCann

  • Veritable inventions: cities, policies and assemblage

    Eugene McCann

  • Assembling / Worlding Cities

    Eugene J. McCann;Ananya Roy;Kevin Ward

  • Space, citizenship, and the right to the city: A brief overview

    Eugene J. McCann

  • Space, scale, governance, and representation: Contemporary geographical perspectives on urban politics and policy

    Deborah Martin;Eugene McCann;Mark Purcell

  • Thinking Through Dualisms in Urban Policy Mobilities

    Eugene J. Mccann;Kevin Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Michael S. Smith
Michael S. Smith Mount Sinai Hospital
Nik Theodore
Nik Theodore University of Illinois at Chicago
Sarah Elwood
Sarah Elwood University of Washington
Elvin Wyly
Elvin Wyly University of British Columbia
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Jason Antony Byrne
Jason Antony Byrne University of Tasmania

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