Trustee tenure: 2016-2023
Wilkinson Building
School of Architecture, Design and Planning (G04)
148 City Rd, Darlington
Sydney NSW 2008
Australia
(02) 9685 9669
d.mcneill@sydney.edu.au | Profile at the University of Sydney
Donald is a Professor of Urbanism at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney. He has previously held positions at the Institute for Culture and Society (Western Sydney University), the Urban Research Centre (Western Sydney University), King’s College London, Southampton and Strathclyde. His research is located at the intersection of human geography, economic sociology, spatial planning, and urban design and architecture, with a particular interest in the political and cultural economy of globalisation and cities. He has published widely in human geography and urban studies, and his books include: The global architect: firms, fame and urban form (Routledge, 2008), New Europe: imagined spaces (Arnold, 2004), and Urban change and the European left: tales from the New Barcelona (Routledge, 1999). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University in 2010 and Special Professor at the School of Geography, University of Nottingham from 2011 to 13. He is a recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in the field of ‘Governing digital cities’, running from 2012 to 2016.