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February 6, 2007
A GCI Seminar |
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Urban Form and the Institutional Context in
Southeast Asian Cities |
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Tingwei Zhang
Associate Professor, Urban Planning
and Policy Program
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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Great Cities Institute, Suite 400 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607
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Southeast Asia
has become a critical part of the world economically,
environmentally and politically. Tingwei Zhang’s
research reviews urban development history and trends
in Southeast Asian cities, and identifies the common development
trajectory as well as considerable variations in the cities
through the pre-colony, colony, independence and economic
restructuring periods. The findings demonstrate a dynamic
relation between global forces and urban development efforts
at the local level. Understanding local history and vernacular
context rather than copying experience from abroad is
the starting point in designing a workable public policy.
Tingwei Zhang is Associate
Professor of Urban Planning and Policy in the UIC Urban
Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning
and Public Affairs. He serves as Chair of the International
Association for China Planning (IACP) and a member of
China National Planning Expert Committee. He is also the
director of the Asia and China Research Program (ACRP)
in the Great Cities Institute. His research interest covers
urban development policy and practice in Chinese and American
cites. He has published over 70 articles and three books
in China, the U.S., U.K. and France.
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