Terence Gary McGee, usually called Terry McGee (born January 1936 in Cambridge, New Zealand

Cambridge, New Zealand

Cambridge is a town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. Situated 24 kilometres southeast of Hamilton, on the banks of the Waikato River, Cambridge is known as "The Town of Trees & Champions".In the 1840s Cambridge had a Maori population but in the 1850's missionaries and...

) 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 emeregence of extended metropolitan regions.
• rural-urban migration

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

Institute of Asian Research

The Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia is a research institute founded in 1978 and has been the foremost research centre in Canada for the inter-disciplinary study of Asia...

 at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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. He has also served as President of The Canadian Association of Geographers

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Awards

• (2000) Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography
• (2009) Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud
  Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud
  The Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud established in 1991, it is the highest award that can be gained in the field of geography. The award is modelled on the Nobel Prize it is considered and colloquially called the Nobel prize for geography...
  
  

Other sources

• Institute of Asian Research
• Kelly, P.F. (editor) (2007): Essays in Honour of T.G. McGee. Asia Pacific Viewpoint.