Donald McNeill is Professor of Urban and Cultural Geography, joining the Institute for Culture and Society in 2011, having previously held positions at the Urban Research Centre (Western Sydney University), King¿s College London, Southampton and Strathclyde. He is a recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, in the field of ¿Governing digital cities¿, running from 2012 to 2016. His work 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 globalization and cities. He is currently working with colleagues on ARC grants about the future of Sydney¿s Chinatown, and on the social history of air-conditioning in Southeast Asia, and has recently completed an ARC Discovery project, ¿The production and contestation of airport territory¿ (2008-2010). 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).