Terry McGee

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Terence Gary McGee, usually called Terry McGee (born January 1936 in Cambridge, New Zealand) is an urban geographer and social scientist.

Key themes[]

McGees' major academic work has mainly been in the following areas:

  • the geography of Southeast Asian cities
  • the informal economy in developing countries;
  • systems of food distribution in developing countries' cities;
  • the emergence of extended metropolitan regions.
  • rural-urban migration[1]

Key publications[]

His major publications include:

  • (1967) The Southeast Asian city: a social geography of the primate cities of Southeast Asia, London, Bell
  • (1971) The Urbanization Process in the Third World, T. G. McGee. G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., London
  • (1985) Theatres of Accumulation: Studies in Asian and Latin American Urbanization, together with Warwick Armstrong, London: Methuen

Academic career[]

McGee has been for many years the Director of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia.[citation needed] He has also served as President of The Canadian Association of Geographers.[citation needed]

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ Lea, J. P. (2006): Terence Gary McGee. In: David Simon (ed): Fifty Key Thinkers in Development, Routledge, pp. 176–181
  2. ^ Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Award for Scholarly Distinction
  3. ^ "Geogramme: A Newsletter for Alumni and Friends of UBC Geography", UBC Department of Geography, Summer 2009. Retrieved on 22 May 2015.

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