Paul J. Maginn

My primary research expertise/interests are: (i) geographies and regulation of the sex industry, (ii) geographies of online pornography, (iii) strategic metropolitan planning; (iv) urban policy/regeneration; (v) urban politics and representation; (vi) social and cultural aspects of suburbia; (vii) geographies of retailing; and, qualitative methods in urban/housing policy.

I am author/co-editor/contributor of 9 books:

Phelps, N.A., Keil, R. and Magin P.J. (Eds.) (2025) Peripheral Centralities: Instances of Anticipatory Urbanism (JOVIS)

Phelps, N.A., Keil, R. and Maginn, P.J (Eds.) (2025) Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs (Routledge)

Maginn, P.J. and Anacker K. B (Eds.) (2022) Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? (Routledge)

Gurran, N., Maginn, P.J., Burton, P., Legacy, C., Curtis, C., Kent, A. & Binder, A. (Eds) (2020) Disruptive Urbanism: Implications of the ‘Sharing Economy’ for Cities, Regions, and Urban Policy (Routledge);

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes: Geographies and Regulation of the Sex Industry (Routledge, 2015) - winner of the 2016 Planning Institute of Australia (National) Award for Excellence in Cutting Edge Research and Teaching.

Thompson, S. & Maginn P.J. (Eds) (2012) Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning (2nd Ed) (Cambridge University Press);

Maginn, P.J., Thompson, S. and Tonts, M. (2008a) Qualitative Urban Analysis: An International Perspective (Elsevier);

Maginn, P.J., Thompson, S. and Tonts, M. (2008b) Qualitative Housing Analysis: An International Perspective (Emerald Publishing);

Maginn, P. J. (2004) Urban Regeneration, Community Power and the (In)Significance of Race (Ashgate).

I was Editor-in-Chief for Urban Policy and Research (2014-2023), and Co-Convenor of the Australasian Cities Research Network (2017-2021), the academic group that oversees the State of Australian Cities Conference series.