Intensifying fragmentation: states, places, and dissonant struggles over the political geographies of power (2020)
Journal Article
MacLeod, G. (2020). Intensifying fragmentation: states, places, and dissonant struggles over the political geographies of power. Space and Polity, 24(2), 177-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2020.1775574

This paper offers an engagement with The Fragmented State, published in 1983 and representing Ronan Paddison’s most significant book-length contribution. The paper demonstrates how certain claims prosecuted by Paddison – especially relating to centra... Read More about Intensifying fragmentation: states, places, and dissonant struggles over the political geographies of power.

Explaining ‘Brexit capital’: uneven development and the austerity state (2018)
Journal Article
MacLeod, G., & Jones, M. (2018). Explaining ‘Brexit capital’: uneven development and the austerity state. Space and Polity, 22(2), 111-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2018.1535272

The precise moment that triggered the EU referendum had its roots in the Europhobia that lurked within the soul of the Conservative Party. It has been deeply perturbing to witness such Europhobia played out in the form of an internal party political... Read More about Explaining ‘Brexit capital’: uneven development and the austerity state.

The Grenfell Tower atrocity: Exposing urban worlds of inequality, injustice, and an impaired democracy (2018)
Journal Article
Macleod, G. (2018). The Grenfell Tower atrocity: Exposing urban worlds of inequality, injustice, and an impaired democracy. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 22(4), 460-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507099

The fire that erupted in Grenfell Tower in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London on 14 June 2017 is widely acknowledged to be the worst experienced during UK peacetime since the nineteenth century. It is confirmed to have resulte... Read More about The Grenfell Tower atrocity: Exposing urban worlds of inequality, injustice, and an impaired democracy.

Beyond Consensus and Conflict in Housing Governance: Returning to the Local State (2018)
Journal Article
Ormerod, E., & Macleod, G. (2019). Beyond Consensus and Conflict in Housing Governance: Returning to the Local State. Planning Theory, 18(3), 319-338. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095218790988

This article contends that the de-politicizing tendencies in urban planning that are often interpreted through a post-political frame of analysis might alternatively be investigated via the analytical lens of a transforming local state. Examining the... Read More about Beyond Consensus and Conflict in Housing Governance: Returning to the Local State.

Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., McFarlane, C., & MacLeod, G. (2018). Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities. Urban Studies, 55(4), 702-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016663836

As the 21st Century world assumes an increasingly urban landscape, the question of how definitive urban spaces are to be governed intensifies. At the heart of this debate lies a question about the degree and type of autonomy that towns and cities mig... Read More about Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities.

Introduction: Grammars of Urban Injustice (2014)
Journal Article
MacLeod, D., & McFarlane, C. (2014). Introduction: Grammars of Urban Injustice. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 46(4), 857-873. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12085

Walling the City (2014)
Book Chapter
MacLeod, D. (2014). Walling the City. In E. McCann, & R. Paddison (Eds.), Cities and social change : encounters with contemporary urbanism (130-147). SAGE Publications

This chapter explores the diverse ways in which contemporary cities in various parts of the world are being subjected to ‘walling’, particularly via processes of intensified physical and institutional segregation. It begins by revealing the notable h... Read More about Walling the City.

New Urbanism/Smart Growth in the Scottish Highlands: Mobile Policies and Post-politics in Local Development Planning. (2013)
Journal Article
MacLeod, D. (2013). New Urbanism/Smart Growth in the Scottish Highlands: Mobile Policies and Post-politics in Local Development Planning. Urban Studies, 50(11), 2196-2221. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013491164

The paper draws on recent theorising on policy mobility and post-politics to investigate the planning of a New Urbanist settlement, Tornagrain, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, and designed by Andres Duany. It details Duany's role as an infl... Read More about New Urbanism/Smart Growth in the Scottish Highlands: Mobile Policies and Post-politics in Local Development Planning..

Stretching Urban Renaissance: Privatizing Space, Civilizing Place, Summoning 'Community'. (2012)
Journal Article
MacLeod, D., & Johnstone, C. (2012). Stretching Urban Renaissance: Privatizing Space, Civilizing Place, Summoning 'Community'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 36(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2011.01067.x

Urban Politics Reconsidered: Growth Machine to Post-democratic City? (2011)
Journal Article
MacLeod, D. (2011). Urban Politics Reconsidered: Growth Machine to Post-democratic City?. Urban Studies, 48(12), 2629-2660. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098011415715

Connecting localism and community empowerment: research review and critical synthesis for the AHRC Connected Community Programme. (2011)
Other
Painter, J., Orton, A., MacLeod, D., Dominelli, L., & Pande, R. (2011). Connecting localism and community empowerment: research review and critical synthesis for the AHRC Connected Community Programme

Renewing Urban Politics (2011)
Journal Article
MacLeod, D., & Jones, M. (2011). Renewing Urban Politics. Urban Studies, 48(12), 2443-2472. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098011415717

Territorial, scalar, networked, connected: In what sense a 'Regional World'? (2007)
Journal Article
MacLeod, G., & Jones, M. (2007). Territorial, scalar, networked, connected: In what sense a 'Regional World'?. Regional Studies, 41(9), 1177-1191. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701646182

New Labour's 'broken' neighbourhoods: liveability, disorder, and discipline? (2007)
Book Chapter
Johnstone, C., & MacLeod, D. (2007). New Labour's 'broken' neighbourhoods: liveability, disorder, and discipline?. In R. Atkinson, & G. Helms (Eds.), Securing an Urban Renaissance. Crime, community and British urban policy (75-90). Policy Press

Mapping the geographies of UK devolution. (2006)
Book Chapter
MacLeod, G., & Jones, M. (2006). Mapping the geographies of UK devolution. In M. Tewdwr-Jones, & P. Allmendinger (Eds.), Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning (333-352). Routledge

Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics and the English question. (2005)
Book Chapter
Jones, M., & MacLeod, G. (2005). Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics and the English question. In I. Sagan, & H. Halkier (Eds.), Regionalism contested: Institution, society and governance (93-112)

Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics and the English question (2004)
Journal Article
Jones, M., & MacLeod, G. (2004). Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics and the English question. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29(4), 433-452. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00140.x

Amid the globalization of economic life and a myriad of powerful challenges to Westphalian traditions of political statehood, it is now routinely contended that regions are 'in resurgence'. Nonetheless, much of the debate on this purported regional r... Read More about Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics and the English question.

Privatizing the City? The tentative push towards edge urban developments and gated communities in the United Kingdom. Revised report. (2004)
Report
MacLeod, G. (2004). Privatizing the City? The tentative push towards edge urban developments and gated communities in the United Kingdom. Revised report. [No known commissioning body]

Negotiating the contemporary city: Introduction. (2003)
Journal Article
MacLeod, G., Raco, M., & Ward, K. (2003). Negotiating the contemporary city: Introduction. Urban Studies, 40(9), 1655-1671

Privatizing the City? The Tentative push towards edge urban developments and gated communities in the United Kingdom. (2003)
Report
MacLeod, G. (2003). Privatizing the City? The Tentative push towards edge urban developments and gated communities in the United Kingdom. [No known commissioning body]