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Overview

Pauline M McGuirk is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia and specializes primarily in Social Sciences and Engineering. Their research exhibits a strong focus on Urban Studies, with significant contributions also in Media Technology, Political Science and International Relations, Transportation, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as Smart Cities and Technologies, Urban Planning and Governance, Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis, Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, Water Governance and Infrastructure, Cultural Industries and Urban Development, and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism.

McGuirk has been involved in multiple publications across prominent academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Urban Studies
  • Urban Geography
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • Digital Geography and Society
  • Geographical Research

The scientist's recent papers demonstrate a consistent engagement with urban governance, innovation, and smart city dynamics. Selected works include:

  • "Urban governance innovation and COVID-19" (2020), Geographical Research
  • "Municipal Statecraft For The Smart City: Retooling The Smart Entrepreneurial City?" (2021), Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • "Innovating urban governance: A research agenda" (2022), Progress in Human Geography

While not the primary author, related influential work in the area includes "The rise of AI urbanism in post-smart cities: A critical commentary on urban artificial intelligence" (2023) and "Why does urban Artificial Intelligence (AI) matter for urban studies? Developing research directions in urban AI research" (2024), reflecting the scientist's integrated research environment and themes.

Collaboration plays a role in McGuirk's research approach, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Robyn Dowling
  • Sophia Maalsen
  • Tom Baker
  • Alistair Sisson
  • Chris Gibson

Best Publications

  • Using questionnaires in qualitative human geography

    Pauline M. McGuirk;Phillip O'Neill

  • Situating Communicative Planning Theory: Context, Power, and Knowledge

    P M McGuirk

  • Assemblage thinking as methodology: commitments and practices for critical policy research

    Tom Baker;Pauline M McGuirk

  • Neoliberalist Planning? Re‐thinking and Re‐casting Sydney's Metropolitan Planning

    Pauline M. McGUIRK

  • Watering the suburbs: distinction, conformity and the suburban garden

    L. E. Askew;P. M. McGuirk

  • Power and Policy Networks in Urban Governance: Local Government and Property-led Regeneration in Dublin

    Pauline M. McGuirk

  • Neoliberal privatisation?: remapping the public and the private in Sydney's masterplanned residential estates

    Pauline McGuirk;Robyn Dowling

  • State, Strategy, and Scale in the Competitive City: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Governance of ‘Global Sydney’:

    Pauline M McGuirk

  • Retrofitting cities: Local governance in Sydney, Australia

    Robyn Dowling;Pauline M McGuirk;Harriet Bulkeley

  • Making a smart city for the smart grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks

    Harriet Bulkeley;Pauline M McGuirk;Robyn Dowling

  • Changing Approaches to Urban Planning in an ‘Entrepreneurial City’: The Case of Dublin

    Pauline M. Mcguirk;Andrew Maclaran

  • Population growth and change: implications for Australia's cities and regions

    Pauline M McGuirk;Neil Argent

  • Place Making: the Social Construction of Newcastle

    Kevin M. Dunn;Pauline M. McGUIRK;Hilary P.M. Winchester

  • Understanding Master-Planned Estates in Australian Cities: A Framework for Research

    Pauline M. McGuirk;Robyn Dowling

  • Questioning the Rhetoric of Social Mix: Courteous Community or Hidden Hostility?

    Kristian J. Ruming;Kathleen J. Mee;Pauline M. McGuirk

  • The Political Construction of the City‐Region: Notes from Sydney

    Pauline McGuirk McGuirk

  • Producing the Capacity to Govern in Global Sydney: A Multiscaled Account

    Pauline M. McGuirk

  • The rise of AI urbanism in post-smart cities: A critical commentary on urban artificial intelligence

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  • Privatism, Privatisation and Social Distinction in Master-Planned Residential Estates

    Robyn Dowling;Rowland Atkinson;Pauline M McGuirk

  • DRUNK FOR THREE WEEKS Sporting Success and City Image

    David Rowe;Pauline McGuirk

  • Governing social reproduction in masterplanned estates: Urban politics and everyday life in Sydney

    Pauline M McGuirk;Robyn Dowling

  • Urban Carbon Governance Experiments: The Role of Australian Local Governments

    Pauline M McGuirk;Robyn Dowling;Clare Brennan;Harriet Bulkeley

  • Urban governance innovation and COVID-19

    Pauline McGuirk;Robyn Dowling;Sophia Maalsen;Tom Baker

  • Planning a Prosperous Sydney: The challenges of planning urban development in the new urban context

    Pauline McGuirk;Phillip O'Neill

  • Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon governance: Perspectives from the Australian city

    Pauline M McGuirk;Harriet Bulkeley;Robyn Dowling

  • Reterritorialisation of economies and institutions: The rise of the Sydney basin economy

    Phillip O'Neill;Pauline McGuirk

  • Prosperity along Australia's Eastern Seaboard: Sydney and the geopolitics of urban and economic change

    Phillip O'Neill;Pauline M McGuirk

Frequent Co-Authors

Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Gordon R Waitt
Gordon R Waitt University of Wollongong
Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
Louise Amoore
Louise Amoore Durham University
Rowland Atkinson
Rowland Atkinson University of Sheffield
Sarah Elwood
Sarah Elwood University of Washington
David Rowe
David Rowe Western Sydney University
Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson University of Wollongong
Anthony S. Kiem
Anthony S. Kiem University of Newcastle Australia
Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle Australia

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