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PERSONAL PARTICULARS

Full Name: Prof Clyde Michael Douglass

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Urban Planning) University of California at Los Angeles

M.A. (Political Science) University of Hawaii

B.A. (Political Science/International Relations) University of California at Los Angeles

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

June 2012 - Professor, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Leader, Asian Urbanisms Cluster, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

July 2013 – June 2016 Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

June 2012 - July 2013 Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

June 2004-2012 Director (2004-2008) and Executive Director (2008 – present), Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii. Managed grants, research, professional practice, training in globalization related programs and projects.

January 1986 to 2012 Professor (Associate Prof 1986-1990, Professor 1990-present), Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Hawaii. Emeritus Professor from July 2012. Taught graduate courses and carried our research on urban and regional planning with focus on Asia, planning theory, globalization, filmmaking for social research, practicum.

June 1990 to June 1996 Chair, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Hawaii.

January 1983-December 1984 United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS), Senior Regional Economist, National Urban Development Strategy Project, Indonesia Directed project research on urban networks and regional analysis

January 1981-December 1982 Senior Lecture, Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Netherlands Taught international graduate courses on urban and regional planning in Asia and world

January 1979-December 1981 Lecturer, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom Taught graduate and undergraduate courses on spatial analysis and development studies

August 1977 to December 1978 Program Associate, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan Carried out research on urban and regional development in Asia


CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE OR SERVICES RENDERED

[from 2000 only] 2015 Adviser, “City Limits: The Risks of Rapid and Unplanned Urbanization in Developing Countries,” Global Risks 2015, Tenth Edition of the World Economic Forum Insight Report 2014 Adviser, “Growing Cities, Growing Risks”, Global Risks 2014, Ninth Edition of the World Economic Forum Insight Report (Geneva). 2013 Advisory Service provided to the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) on Integrated Regional Planning for Innovations in Sustainable Development. Nagoya, Japan. Advisory Service to the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development for the Expert Consultation on Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Sustainable Development in the Post Rio Era, Incheon, Korea. Advisory Service to the Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi) on the Governance of Mega Cities Regions. Mumbai. 2012 Organizer, principal investigator and lecturer: Training for Livable Cities. A 3-Year program of civil society engagement in exchange of ideas, production of online media, films, and public events on Vietnam’s urban transition and the livability of Hanoi. Funded by the Ford Foundation. Organizer, principal investigator and lecturer: Training for Curriculum and Teaching Urban Planning in Vietnam. Four-year Ford Foundation grant to train faculty at the Hanoi Architecture University in social science perspectives and methods on urban planning. 2011 Consultant/author: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and the Korean International Cooperation Agency. Researched and wrote “The Saemaul Undong in Historical Perspective and in the Contemporary World”, a historical review and assessment of current applicability in other countries of Korea’s famous rural development program 2010 Organizer, principal investigator and lecturer: Training on Livable Cities in Asia. Five-year Ford Foundation grant to train urban specialists from Asia. Included annual one month seminar/workshop in Hawaii with the East-West Center; Symposia in Vietnam, and action-oriented urban research projects in Vietnam. 2009 Consultant/author: Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements, Korea. Researched and wrote lead report on “Transborder Intercity Networks in East Asia: Regionalizing Globalization for Economic Resilience” 2009 Consultant/author: UNCHS/UNDP/UNESCAP. Researched and wrote major report on “Cross-Border Water Governance in Asia”.


2007 Organizer and consultant: Northwest University, Xi’an and Government of Xi’an, China. Conducted research and coordinated and participated in writing a major policy report on “Historic Preservation in a Livable City – International Perspective on the Urban Transition, Responsible Tourism and World Heritage Designation for the Han Chang’an Site, Xi’an, China,” which is incorporated in Xi’an Master Plan (2010). 2005 Consultant/author: OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) (Paris) Carried out interviews and conducted research to write “Regional Competitiveness”, Chapter 2 in OECD Territorial Reviews, Busan, Korea (Paris). 2002 Organizer and consultant: UNCHS/UNDP Organized research group, carried out research and participated in drafting “The Urban Transition in Vietnam.” (published by UNCHS/Government of Vietnam) 2001 Consultant and evaluator: UNDP/UNCHS, Royal Government of Nepal. Carried out final year review and assessment for future funding on the UN funded Rural Urban Partnerships Programme (RUPP), Nepal 2001 Consultant and author: UNDP/UNCHS. Researched and wrote keynote paper for Vietnam’s first Urban Forum. Paper entitled, “Pathways of Urbanization and Socio-economic Development in East Asia: Policy Research Agenda for Vietnam’s Urban Transition in a Global Era” (English and Vietnamese). 2000 Consultant/author: OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development ) (Paris). Participated as researcher in OECD Territorial Review of Korea. Sole author of report on “Territorial Dimensions of Development in Pacific Asia: Restructuring after the Economic Crisis” and “Korea at the Turning Point: The Space-Economy of Territorial Development.” (consultancies in 1990s included those for the World Bank, UN, Norwegian aid, USAID, Thai Government, Indonesian Government, Canadian Government, Korean Government).

EDITORIAL & EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND BOOK SERIES

2016- Section Editor: Springer Cities series at ARI-NUS

2012- Editorial Board EWHA Journal of Social Sciences Seoul, South Korea

2009- Editorial Board Environment and Urbanization London and New Delhi

2004- Editorial Board Globalisations London, UK


2008-2013 Editor International Development Planning Review (IDPR) Liverpool, UK

2004-2013 Editorial Board Human Security Auckland, NZ

2002-2013 Editorial Board International Journal of Urban Sciences Seoul, Korea

OFFICIAL POSITIONS HELD IN ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

2015 - Board of Advisors, Future Cities Lab. NUS.

2013 - Member, Urban Knowledge Network Asia, International Institute for Asian Studies.

2008-2013 Member, American Planning Association

2008-2013 Member, Urban Affairs Association

2003-2012 Director and Executive Director of the Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii, part of Consortium of globalization research centers (UCLA, George Washington, Univ. So. Florida, UH) in US.

2004-2012 Member, Globalization Research Network (GRN).

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Mike Douglass is Professor at the Asia Research Institute and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. At ARI he is the Leader of the Asian Urbanisms Cluster. He is Emeritus Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. To 2012 he was the Director and then Executive Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawai’i (UH). From 2008-2013 he was Co-Editor of International Development Planning Review. He received his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA. He previously taught at the Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands) and at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia (U.K.). He has also been a Visiting Scholar/Professor at Stanford University, UCLA, Tokyo University, Thammasat University and the National University of Singapore.

With a professional focus on urban and regional planning in Asia, he has lived and worked for many years in Asian countries, including in Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. He has joined numerous research and planning projects and has been a consultant for international development institutions as well as national and local governments in Asia. He has also advised university programs on planning education in Asia and the U.S.

Current research in Asia: (1) disasters governance in urbanizing Asia, (2) progressive cities; (3) globalization, public space, and the vernacular city; (4) international migration and the globalization of households in Pacific Asia; (5) transborder intercity networks in East Asia.


KEYNOTES, PLENARIES, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCE ORGANIZER

[from 2012 only]

2016

• Keynote Speaker. “Collective Agency and Resilience: the Rise of Progressive Cities in Asia in the Anthropocene.” 10th

Conference of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network:

Agency and Resilience. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 15-17 Dec.

• Keynote Speaker. “Convivial Cities for Human Flourishing and Resilient Economies.” 2016 Open Daegu for Creativity & Future. 23-24 November 2016. Daegu, South Korea. Sponsored by the City Government of Daegu.

• Keynote Speaker. “Humanizing by Localizing the City for Urban Regeneration.” Workshop on Strategy for Urban Regeneration Based on the Locality: Urban Regeneration with Citizen's Participation. 25 November 2016. Sponsored by the City Government of Daegu.

• Keynote Speaker. “Asian Experiences in Progressive City Making.” The Suwon Forum on Progressive Human City, Suwon, Korea, 3-4 November. CityNet and Suwon City Government.

• Conference co-organizer: Disaster Justice in the Anthropocene Asia and the Pacific. Asia Research Institute, 17-18 November.

• Keynote Speaker. “Governing Cities for Human Flourishing – From Neighborhood to Metropolis in an Era of Planetary Urbanization.” International Conference on Taking Seoul to the Next Level through Governance. Funded by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. September 22.

• Plenary Speaker. “From Globopolis to Cosmopolis – The Rise of Progressive Cities in Asia. International The 2nd International Symposium on Asian Development Studies. University of Malaya, K.L., 1-2 September 2016.

• Plenary speaker. “Public Space for Human Flourishing: Reclaiming the Public City in Asia.” Workshop on Public Spaces: Creating Safe, Inclusive, and Accessible Public Spaces for All. UN-Habitat, Kuala Lumpur City Hall. Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2106.

• Expert. Expert Group Meeting on Action Framework for Implementation of the New Urban Agenda. UN-HABITAT, the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) and the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). Surabaya, 28-29 July 2016,

• Plenary speaker. “Asia’s Urban Transition and the Rise of Progressive Cities – Toward Transformative Governance for Human Flourishing in the Anthropocene.” Workshop on Urban Governance for Sustainable Development in Asia: Access to Services for Social Equity. East-West Center, Hawaii. Surabaya, 21-24 July.

• Keynote Speaker. “The Resilience of Progressive Cities: Governing Asia’s Urban Transition in the Anthropocene.” International Workshop and Symposium on Progressive Cities as Resilient Cities, The Asia Foundation with the Belgian Embassy and the Ministry of Construction, Hanoi 18-19 July 2016.

• Co-organizer (with Marie Gibert). International Conference on Lanes and Neighborhoods in Cities in Asia, Asia Research Institute, International Institute for Asian Studies, and University College London. Future Cities Lab, National University of Singapore. 30 June-1 July, 2016.

• Keynote Speaker. “Planning as a Process of Becoming – The Contemporary City and the City Possible in Theory and Practice,” Workshop on Becomings in Planning/Planning in

Becoming, KTH Division of Urban and Regional Studies, Stockholm, Sweden. 20‐21 June 2016.


• Keynote Speaker. “The Rise of Progressive Cities in Asia – Research on Planetary Urbanization and Human Flourishing in the 21st Century.” Globalization Graduate Forum, Paris, Sorbonne. 17 June.

• Keynote Speaker. Planetary Urbanization and Human Flourishing – Alternative Concepts of Resilient Cities in Asia. Public Lecture, Leiden University, 8 June.

• Keynote Speaker. “Resilient Urbanism in the Anthropocene – The Rise of Progressive City Regions in Asia’s Urban Transition,” International Workshop on “Resilience and Asian Urbanism,” College of Built Environments at the University of Washington, Seattle, March 28-30.

• Discussant. Panel on “New Urban-Rural Relations and Resilience in Asian City-Regions: Multidisciplinary and Multi-scalar Perspectives,” Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Seattle, March 31-April 3.

• Co-organizer (with Simone Chung), Symposium on Hard State, Soft City: The Urban Imaginative Field in Singapore, NUS Museum and Asia Research Institute, 17-18 March.

• Organizer and Keynote Presenter. International Workshop on Gaps in Disaster Governance Research. Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Program, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. March 10-12.

2015

Plenary Presenter. Disaster Governance and Resilience in Asia – A Multiscalar Framework for Engaging Expertise.” Workshop on Engaging Expertise in Disaster Governance 1. University of Tokyo, 10 December 2015.

Plenary Presenter. “Planetary Urbanization without Cities – Bringing in the Local State and the Public City for Human and Planetary Flourishing”. International Workshop on Rethinking Asian Studies – The Idea of the City in Asian Contexts – City Theory for the New Millennium. Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). 20-21 October.

Keynote Speaker, Conference co-organizer. “The Rise of Progressive Cities for Human and Planetary Flourishing – A Global Perspective on Asia’s Urban Transition”. International Symposium on Making a Progressive City: Seoul’s Experience and Beyond. City Hall, Seoul, and the Seoul Institute, 15-16 October.

Keynote Speaker. “City by City – The Rise of Progressive Governance for Human Cities in a Global Age”, International Symposium on Asian Human City Network Suwon, South Korea, 13 October.

Co-Organizer and Plenary Presenter. “Post-disaster Resilience in Asia’s Urban Transition – Neighborhoods, City Regions and Mega-trends in Disaster Governance,” National University of Singapore-China Academy of Urban Planning and Design Collaborative Workshop on Post-disaster Governance for Resilient City Regions, Beichuan, China, 18-19 September.

Presenter. Cities by and for the People. Ninth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 9), Adelaide, July 6-9.

Workshop Organizer. Workshop on Disaster Governance – from Research and Experiences to Teaching and Training. Asia Research Institute, 15 June.

Keynote Speaker. “Making a Progressive City – The Seoul Experience” (with Myungrae Cho). The Rise of Progressive Cities East and West, Paris Sorbonne University, May 11-12. Funded by USPC-SPO-NUS Joint Research Project 2014. WBS R-603-000-134-133 (SGD 50,000).

Plenary presenter. Asia’s Urban Transition – the Spatiality of Human and Planetary Flourishing in the Anthropocene. International Exploratory Workshop “Humanistic Scholarship in the Anthropocene: Approaching China from a Sustainability Paradigm. Asien-


Orient-Ins'tut – Sinologie Universitärer Forschungsschwerpunkt (UFSP) Asien und Europa. Zurich, May 15-18.

Conference Organizer (with Rita Padawangi (NUS)), Alternative Urban Spaces: Cities by and for the People. 27-28 April. Funded by ARI.

Conference Organizer (with Michelle Miller (NUS)), Decentralized Disaster Governance in Urbanizing Asia. March 5-6. Funded by ARI and MOE Grant on Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanizing Asia.

Keynote Speaker, Toward a Research Framework for Progressive Cities – The Seoul Experience, and Conference Organizer (with Romain Garbaye (Sorbonne) and KC Ho (NUS), Progressive Cities in Asia and Europe. Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 12-13 February. Funded by USPC-SPO-NUS Joint Research Project 2014. WBS R-603-000-134-133 (SGD 50,000).

2014

Keynote Speaker. “The Urban Transition in Disaster Governance – Scaling up from Neighborhood to City and Transborder Region in Asia.” Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, 5 Dec.

Keynote Speaker. “Progressive Cities in Asia”. Seoul Institute, Seoul, 4 Dec.

Keynote Speaker. “The Rise of Progressive Cities in Asia in a Global Urban Age”. International Institute of Asian Studies/Urban Knowledge Network Asia, University of Leiden, Leiden, 26 November.

Keynote Speaker. “Progressive Cities in Asia in a New Gilded Global Age.” l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris, 20 November.

Conference Co-Organizer (with Rita Padawangi), The Resilience of Vernacular Heritage in Asian Cities. Asia Research Institute, 4-5 November.

Co-organizer, CityPossible III Filmfest. NUTC Auditorium, Singapore, November 4.

Invited Lecturer. “Asia’s Urban Future.” City University of Hong Kong, Master Class, 22 October.

Keynote Speaker. “How to Build a Livable City.” Sustainability Summit, City University of Hong Kong 30th Anniversary Celebration, Hong Kong, 23 October.

Keynote Speaker. “Public Space, Public City: Resistance against the Corporatization of Urban Space in Asia,” Geography and Urban Studies Joint Seminar, the Chinese University of Hong, 24 Oct.

Speaker. “Filmmaking for Responsible Marketing,” Special Session for the 2014 Global Marketing Conference at Singapore. Marina Bay Sands, July 15th - July 18th, 2014).

Panel Organizer. Heritage Activism for the Vernacular City. AAS-in-Asia Conference in Singapore, July 17-19, 2014

Panel Organizer. The Vernacular City as Living Heritage. AAS-in-Asia Conference in Singapore, July 17-19, 2014

Keynote Speaker. Special Seminar on Creative Urban Communities and Progressive Cities. University of Seoul, graduate programs on Urban Sociology and Urban Engineering. Seoul, 3 June.

Keynote Speaker. Secondary Cities Unbound – from Corporate to People-Centered Transborder City Regions in Asia. Asia Research Center, Seoul National University, June 2.

Invited Lecture. “Places of Hope: Artisan Potters and 21st Century Japan after the Great Ordeal”. Special Lecture in Japan Studies, Korea University. Seoul, 29 May.


Invited Expert. GAR15 Meeting Series on the Future of Disaster Risk Management. UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNRISDR), UNDP, and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), Singapore, 10-11 April.

Plenary Speaker. Asia’s Urban Transition – Mega Trends and the Future of Cities in a Global Age. London School of Economics Asia Forum. Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 April.

Public Lecture. Place of Hope – the Kasama Potters and the Great Ordeal. Asian Civilizations Museum, Friends of the Museum. March 17.

Conference Co-Organizer (with Michelle Miller). International Workshop on Governing Flooding in Asia’s Urban Transition. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 20 January.

Paper Presenter. “Water, Water Everywhere: Toward Participatory Solutions to Chronic Urban Flooding in Jakarta (with Rita Padawangi). International Workshop on Governing Flooding in Asia’s Urban Transition. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 20 January.

Paper Presenter. Grounding Cyberspace: The Reflexivity of Digital Network Activism and Urban Insurgencies in Asia and the Middle East (with Merlyna Lim and Rita Padawangi). International Conference on Conceptualizing Cyber-Urban Connections in Asia and the Middle East. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 23-24 January.

2013

Keynote speaker. Livability as a Process of City Making – In Search of Progressive Cities in a Global Urban Age in Asia. International conference on The Future Cities and the Quality of

Life – Community Wellness and Livability:Qualitative Indicators of Livable Cities through Life

Cycle Perspectives. Ewha University, Seoul. December 13.

Keynote speaker. Innovation as Social Learning in the Future of Cities in Asia. Centre for Sustainable Culture and Service. Yonsei University, Seoul. 12 December.

Keynote speaker. Globalization and the Urbanization of Environmental Disasters in Asia: From Neighborhood to City Region in Participatory Disaster Governance. 14th Malaysia-Singapore Forum, University of Malaya, 9-10 Dec 2013

Keynote speaker. The Political Ecology of Flooding in Mega-Urban Regions in Asia: Seeking Spatial Justice through Participatory Disaster Governance in Jakarta. International Conference on Challenges of Extended Mega Urban Regions: The Changing Face of South East Asia and the World. 19-21 November 2013, Putrajaya, Malaysia

Keynote speaker. Creative Communities – Urban Kampung by and for Residents. Gaung Bandung – “Kampung Wajah Kota”. Ikatan Mahasiswa Arsitektur Gunadharma, Institut Teknologi Bandung. Bandung, 6 October.

Conference Co-Organizer. International Conference on Disaster Governance: The Urban Transition in Asia. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 7-8 Nov 2013.

Keynote speaker. “The Urbanization of Environmental Disasters: Livable Cities = Resilient Cities, International Conference on Resilient Cities – Beyond Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. The Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Institute of Technology Surabaya. Surabaya, 8 October.

Keynote speaker. The Vernacular City and Its Creative Milieu: Grassroots Innovations in Urban Regeneration in Asia. International Conference on Cultural Strategies and Urban Regeneration: Policy Innovations from the Grassroots. Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement. Anyang, South Korea, 25 September


Keynote speaker. Livable Cities for Human Flourishing: Grassroots Strategies for Creative Cultural Life and Urban Prosperity. Social Science Symposium on Community Wellness and the Future of Cities. Ewha Womans University. 27 September.

Special Lecture on International Development and Cooperation. Poverty and the Urban Transition in Asia: Different Models, Different Policies. Yonsei University, Wonju Campus, 23 September.

Keynote speaker. The Urbanization of Natural Disasters: Toward a Multi-scalar Approach to Disaster Governance in Asia Workshop on Governance Capacity and Natural Disasters: Enhancing Preparedness, Response and Rebuilding. 26 – 28 August. Honolulu, Hawaii

Keynote speaker. “Public Space, Public City,” International Workshop on Hanoi Public City, Hanoi Women’s Museum, 25 July.

Keynote speaker. “Cities by and for the People.” International Workshop on Asian Urbanisms in Theory and Practice: The Future of the Vernacular City. Create, Future Cities Lab, NUS. 2 July.

Keynote speaker. “Capacity Building Needs For Water Governance vis-á-vis Current Practices in Asia.” Working Group 3, Building Capacities for Adapting to Climate Change in Water Management. Expert Consultation on Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Sustainable Development in the Post Rio Era. Incheon, South Korea. 6-8 March.

Keynote speaker. “Integrated Regional Planning for Sustainable Development in Asia: Innovations in the Governance of Metropolitan, Rural-Urban, and Transborder Riparian

Regions.” UNCRD Expert Group Meetingon Integrated Regional Development Planning. 28-

30 May

Keynote speaker. “Spatial Justice and the Urban Ecology: Slums, Corporatization and Chronic Flooding in Jakarta.” International Conference: Towards Spatial Justice in Jakarta. Tamuranegara University, Jakarta. 25-27 January.

Plenary Speaker. “Metropolitan Governance in South Korea.” Governance of Mega Cities Regions: International Workshop. Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi). 4-5 February.

Public presentation. “The Idea of the City: Competing Paradigms as Alternative Urban Futures in Asia.” Future Cities Lab, UTown, NUS. 27 March.

2012

Public Presentation/sole speaker. “Asia in Transition – Making Livable Cities at the Grassroots in a Global Age”, National Library, Singapore. 24 October. Asia Research Insitute, National University of Singapore and National Library Board.

Keynote speaker. “Livable Cities – Asia’s Urban Future in a Global Age.” NUS Global Cross-Disciplinary Tournament 28 July 2012.

Keynote speaker. “Globalizing Southeast Asia's Urban Transition.” The 7th

Asian Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (20 JULY 2012), Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Keynote speaker. “Corporatization and the Public City: from Globopolis to Grass-roots

Cosmopolis in a Post-national Urban Age” 4th International Conference onLocality as

Alternative Values: Resistance, Hybridism, Autonomy Research Center for "Locality and

Humanities", Korean Studies Institute, PNU Busan, KoreaJune 21-23.

Invited lecture: “The Idea of the City: Competing Paradigms of Livable Cities in a Global Age.” Chung-Ang University, Seoul. 19 June.

Keynote speaker. “Measuring and Comparing Livable Cities”. Ewha Womans University, Seoul. June 18.*Keynote speaker. “The Public City in a Global Age: Transborder Intercity Cooperation for Resilience and Livability in Asia.” International Conference on Intercity


Networks and Urban Governance in Asia. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 8 – 9 March.

RESEARCH PROJECTS / PROGRAMMES / INITIATIVES & COLLABORATIONS

[from 2012 only]

Duration: 04/2016-03/2018 Title of Project: Finding progressive solutions to urban shrinkage: The East Asian experience. LKYSPP Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Type of collaboration: Collaborative research and network Co-Principal Investigators: Yu-min Joo (LKYSPP) and Kong Chong Ho (NUS Sociology)

Duration: 10/2014-09/2017 Title of Project: MOE Tier 2 Grant for Disaster Governance in Urbanizing Asia. Type of collaboration: Research and network building through conferences and research projects Co-Principal Investigators: Greg Clancey (ARI) Workshop/seminars: International conferences in Singapore, China, U.S. (2015-2016)

Duration: 08/2014-06/2016 Title of Project: Progressive Cities in Asia and Europe. Joint Research with Université Sorbonne Paris Cité Type of collaboration: Comparative Research in cities in Asia and Europe. Co-Principal Investigators: Kong Chong Ho (Dept Sociology NUS), Romaine Garbaye Université Sorbonne Paris Cité. Workshop/seminars: International conferences in Singapore, Paris, and Seoul.

Duration: 07/2013-present Title of Project: Cities by and for the People Type of collaboration: Urban Knowledge Network Asia (Leiden) 5 year collaboration as conveners and editors of book series. Co-investigators: Rita Padawangi, Yves Cabañes

Duration: 09/2011-12/2013 Title of Project: Livable Cities in Korea Type of collaboration: Adviser to 3 year project at Ewha Womans University, Seoul Co-investigators: Sungnam Cho Workshop/conferences: annual conferences with final conference in Dec 2013.

Duration: 01/2013-09/2013 Title of Project: Grassroots Cultural Economy and Urban Regneration in East & Southeast Asia Type of collaboration: Create network of scholars for research and international conference with publications. Co-investigators: Se-Hoon Park (Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements, Korea)

Duration: 09/2009-08/2013 Title of Project: Hanoi – a Livable City Type of collaboration: grant to me as principal investigator, Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii Co-investigators: none Name of awarding organization: Ford Foundation Award amount: US$300,000 Workshop/seminars: Hanoi Millennium – City Past and Future. Hanoi, October 2010.

Duration: 11/2011 – 3/2012 Title of Project: A Place of Hope – The Kasama Potters Community and the Great Ordeal Type of collaboration: a filmmaking project to produce a film on the plight of potters in Japan after the 2011 earthquake and the attempts to organize for recovery. Co-investigators: Henry Mochida


Name of awarding organization: Self-generated funds through charity campaign Award amount: US$25,000 Public event: Premier film showing at the Honolulu Convention Center during the Japan-Hawaii Expo, 3-4 March 2012.

Duration: 09/2007-2012 Title of Project: Improving Planning and Urban Management Education in an Era of Globalization Type of collaboration: grant to principal investigators at University of Hawaii to train faculty at Hanoi Architecture University, Hanoi, in social science based urban planning education Co-investigators: James Spencer (GRC/UH) Name of awarding organization: Ford Foundation Award amount: US$900,000 Workshop/seminars: two one-week workshops/seminars per year in Hanoi; inclusion of HAU faculty in courses taught by principal investigators at the University of Hawaii, one semester per year.

PUBLICATIONS

Authored Book and Monograph

Mike Douglass, Executive Producer and Co-Director with Henry Mochida (2012), A Place of Hope – The Kasama Potters Community and the Great Ordeal. Documentary film.

Mike Douglass, Executive Producer and Co-Director with Henry Mochida (2010), Dancing in the Park – Hanoi at Its Millennium, Hawaii International Film Festival, November. Documentary film.

Mike Douglass (2009), Transborder Intercity Networks in East Asia: Regionalizing Globalization for Economic Resilience (Anyang: Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements Monograph).

Edited Book

Michelle Miller and Mike Douglass, and Matthias Garschagen (2017), Crossing Borders -

Governing Environmental Disasters in a Global Urban Age in Asia and the Pacific (Springer).

Simone Chung and Mike Douglass (2017), Hard State, Soft City – Urban Imaginative Representations of Singapore (NUS Press Expected publication summer 2017)

Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass and Rita Padawangi (2017), Cities in Asia by and for the People (Amsterdam University Press. Expected publication July 2017)

Mike Douglass, Kong Chong Ho and Romain Garbaye (2017), The Rise of Progressive Cities East and West (Springer. Expected publication December 2017).

Michelle Miller and Mike Douglass, eds. (2016), Disaster Governance in Urbanising Asia (Singapore: Springer).

Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho and Giok-ling Ooi, eds. (2010), Globalization, the Rise of Civil Society and Civic Spaces in Pacific Asia Cities (London: Routledge).

Ronan Paddison, Peter J. Marcotullio and Mike Douglass, eds. (2010), Connected Cities: Histories, Hinterlands, Hierarchies and Networks, Urban Studies, Economy, Volume III (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage).

Amrita Daniere and Mike Douglass, eds. (2008), Building Urban Communities: The Politics of Civic Space in Asia (London: Routledge).

Gavin Jones and Mike Douglass, eds. (2008), The Rise of Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia – Urban Dynamics in a Global Era (Singapore: Singapore University Press).


Kong Chong Ho and Mike Douglass, eds. (2008), International Development Planning Review, Special Issue on “Globalisation and Livable Cities: Experiences in Place-Making in Pacific Asia”, November.

Editor of Special Journal Publications

Michelle Miller and Mike Douglass, eds. (2016), “Decentralized Disaster Governance in Urbanizing Asia,” Special Issue of Habitat International, 52, 1-4.

Michelle Miller and Mike Douglass, eds. (2015), Governing Flooding in Asia’s Urban Transition, Special Issue of Pacific Affairs, 88:3.

Michelle Ann Miller and Mike Douglass, eds. (2015) Decentralized Disaster Governance in Urbanizing Asia, Special Issue of Habitat International, 52.

Rita Padawangi, Mike Douglass and Peter Marolt, eds. (2014), International Development Planning Review, Special Issue on “Insurgencies, Social Media and the Public City in Asia,” 36:1.

Kong Chong Ho and Mike Douglass, eds. (2008), International Development Planning Review, Special Issue on “Globalisation and Livable Cities: Experiences in Place-Making in Pacific Asia”, November.

Book Chapter/section

Mike Douglass (2017), “Progressive Cities”, In Mike Douglass, Kong Chong Ho and Romain Garbaye, eds., The Rise of Progressive Cities East and West (Springer. Expected publication December 2017).

Mike Douglass, Kong Chong Ho and Romaine Garbaye (2017), “The Rise of Progressive Cities East and West: Introduction and Overview of Concepts and Experience.” In Mike Douglass, Kong Chong Ho and Romain Garbaye, eds., The Rise of Progressive Cities East and West (Springer. Expected publication December 2017).

Mike Douglass (2017), “The Urban Matrix of Transborder Disaster Governance of Asia’s Riparian Regions,” in Michelle Miller and Mike Douglass, and Matthias Garschagen, eds., Crossing Borders - Governing Environmental Disasters in a Global Urban Age in Asia and the

Pacific (Springer. In Press).

Michelle Miller and Mike Douglass (2017), “Cross-Border Disaster Governance in an Urbanising World Region,” in Michelle Miller and Mike Douglass, and Matthias Garschagen, eds., Crossing Borders - Governing Environmental Disasters in a Global Urban Age in Asia and the Pacific

(Springer. In Press).

Michelle Miller and Mike Douglass (2016) “Disaster Governance in an Urbanising World Region,” in M. Miller and M. Douglass, M. Miller and M. Douglass, eds. (2016), Disaster Governance in Urbanising Asia (Springer).

Mike Douglass (2016), “From Good City to Progressive City: Reclaiming the Urban Future in Asia,” Haripriya Rangan and Mee Kam Ng, Jacquelyn Chase, and Libby Porter, eds., Insurgencies and Revolutions: Reflections on John Friedmann's Contributions to Planning Theory and Practice (Routledge).

Mike Douglass (2016), “The Urban Transition of Disaster Governance in Asia,” M. Miller and M. Douglass, eds., Disaster Governance in Urbanising Asia (Springer).

Mike Douglass (2014), “The Saemaul Undong in Historical Perspective and in the Contemporary World,” in Ilcheong Yi and Thandika Mkandawire, eds. Learning from the South Korean Developmental Success (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

Mike Douglass (2014), “Growing Cities, Growing Risks”, Global Risks 2014, Ninth Edition of the World Economic Forum Insight Report (Geneva), p. 22.


Mike Douglass (2014), “The Saemaul Undong in Historical Perspective and in the Contemporary World,” in Ilcheong Yi and Thandika Mkandawire, eds. Learning from the South Korean Developmental Success (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Mike Douglass (2013), “Globalizing the Household in East Asia,” in Dirk Hoerder and Amarjit

Kaur, Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations: A Global Perspective on Continuities and

Discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st Centuries (Leiden: Brill), 65-82.

Mike Douglass (2012), “Local City, Capital City or World City? Civil Society, the (Post-) Developmental State and the Globalization of Urban Space in Pacific Asia,” in Manfred Steger, ed., Globalization and Culture (Cheltehham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Chapter 6).

Mike Douglass (2011), “Global Householding and Japan: A Comparative Perspective on the Rise of a Multicultural Society,” Gabriele Vogt and Glenda S. Roberts, Eds., Migration and Integration – Japan in Comparative Perspective (Bamberg, Germany: IUDICIUM Verlag GmbH), 19-40.

Mike Douglass (2011), “Cross-Border Water Governance in Asia,” in Shabbir Cheema, ed., Cross-Border Governance in Asia and the Pacific (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 122-168).

Mike Douglass (2010), “Globalizing Households: Toward a Multicultural Age in East Asia,” in Pookong Kee and Hidetaka Yoshimatus, eds., Global Movements in the Asia Pacific (Singapore: World Scientific).

Peter J. Marcotullio and Mike Douglass (2010), “Introduction: Connected Cities – Histories, Hinterlands, Hierarchies and Networks,” in Ronan Paddison, Peter J. Marcotullio and Mike Douglass, eds., Connected Cities: Histories, Hinterlands, Hierarchies and Networks, Urban Studies, Economy, Volume III (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), vii-xvii.

Mike Douglass and Liling Huang (2010), “Globalizing the City in Southeast Asia: Utopia on the Urban Edge – the Case of Phu My Hung, Saigon,” in Ronan Paddison, Peter J. Marcotullio and Mike Douglass, eds., Connected Cities: Histories, Hinterlands, Hierarchies and Networks, Urban Studies, Economy, Volume III (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), 287-319.

Mike Douglass (2010), “Cross-Border Water Governance in Asia,” in Shabbir Cheema, ed., Cross-Border Governance in Asia and the Pacific (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, forthcoming).

Liling Huang and Mike Douglass (2008), “Foreign Workers and Spaces for Community Life: Taipei’s Little Philippines,” in Amrita Daniere and Mike Douglass, eds., Building Urban Communities: The Politics of Civic Space in Asia (London: Routledge), 51-71.

Mike Douglass and Amrita Daniere (2008), “Urbanization and Civic Space in Asia,” in Amrita Daniere and Mike Douglass, eds., Building Urban Communities: The Politics of Civic Space in Asia (London: Routledge), 1-18.

Mike Douglass (2008), “The Morphology of MUR Expansion,” Ch. 2 in G. Jones and M. Douglass, eds., The Rise of Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia – Urban Dynamics in a Global Era (Singapore: Singapore University Press).

Mike Douglass, et al. (2008), “The Livability of Mega-Urban Regions in Southeast Asia,” Ch. 10 in G. Jones and M. Douglass, eds., Douglass, eds., The Rise of Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia – Urban Dynamics in a Global Era (Singapore: Singapore University Press), , 288-325.

Mike Douglass and Gavin Jones (2008), “Mega-Urban Region Dynamics in Comparative Perspective,” Ch. 11 in G. Jones and M. Douglass, eds., Douglass, eds., The Rise of Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia – Urban Dynamics in a Global Era (Singapore: Singapore University Press).


Refereed Journal Articles

Mike Douglass (2016), “Globopolis vs. Cosmopolis: Urbanization and the Future of Megacities in Asia,” Global Asia, 11:3. https://www.globalasia.org/bbs/board.php? bo_table=articles&wr_id=9135. September.

Mike Douglass (2016), “John Friedmann, ACSP Distinguished Educator,” Journal of Education and Planning Research, 36:2, 119-120.

Michelle Miller and Mike Douglass (2016), “Decentralized Disaster Governance in Urbanizing Asia,” Habitat International, 52, 1-4.

Mike Douglass (2016), “Creative Communities and the Cultural Economy – Insadong, Chaebol Urbanism and the Local State in Seoul,” Cities, 56, 148-155

Michelle Ann Miller and Mike Douglass (2015), “Introduction: Governing Flooding in Asia’s Urban Transition,” Pacific Affairs. 88:3, 499-516.

Rita Padawangi and Mike Douglass (2015), “Water, Water Everywhere: Toward Participatory Solutions to Chronic Urban Flooding in Jakarta”, Pacific Affairs, 88:3, 517-550.

Mike Douglass (2014), “The Urban Transition in Disaster Governance: Scaling up from

Neighborhood to City and Transborder Region in Asia,” 국정관리연구 (Governance

Research), 9:2, 61-90 (December).

Mike Douglass (2014), “After the Revolution: From Insurgencies to Social Projects to Recover the Public City,” International Development Planning Review, 36:1, 15-32.

Rita Padawangi, Peter Marolt and Mike Douglass (2014), “Insurgencies, Social Media and the Public City in Asia,” International Development Planning Review, 36:41, 3-13.

Mike Douglass (2014), “Afterword: Global Householding and Social Reproduction in Asia,” Geoforum, 51, 313-316.

Mike Douglass (2013), “Global Householding and Social Reproduction in Migration Research Part I: From the Peasantry to Feminist and Political Economy Critiques,” EWHA Journal of Social Sciences, 29, December, 5-34.

Mike Douglass (2013), “Global Householding and Social Reproduction in Migration Research Part II: Contemporary East and Southeast Asia.” EWHA Journal of Social Sciences, 29, December, 35-68.

Mike Douglass (2013), “Decentralizing Governance in a Transborder Urban Age: East Asia and the Busan–Fukuoka ‘Common Living Sphere’,” Pacific Affairs, 86:4, 731-758.

Mike Douglass (2013), “After the Revolution: From Insurgencies to Social Projects to Recover the Public City,” International Development Planning Review, 35:3 (forthcoming).

Mike Douglass (2013), “Book Review: Bae-Gyoon Park, Richard Child Hill, Asato Saito (eds.) 2012: Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia. Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell," International Journal of Urban & Regional Research.

Mike Douglass (2013), “The Future of Cities in a Post-national Urban Age in Asia – Corporate Globopolis versus Vernacular Cosmopolis,” EWHA Journal of Social Sciences, (June).

Mike Douglass, Bart Wissink and Ronald van Kempen (2012), “Enclave Urbanism in China: Consequences and Interpretations,” Urban Geography, 33:2

Mike Douglass (2010), “Book Review: Christopher Silver, Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century,” Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 46:2, 261-62.

Mike Douglass (2010), “Globalizing the Household in East Asia,” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy, XI:1. Forthcoming.


Mike Douglass (2010), “A Global Householding Perspective on Migration and Social Change in Korea, Japan and Taiwan,” Studies in Urban Humanities. Forthcoming.

Mike Douglass (2010), “Globalization, Mega-projects and the Environment: Urban Form and Water in Jakarta,” Environment and Urbanization, 1:1, 45–65.

Published Translation (translation of your work into any other languages by other people)

Mike Douglass (2014), “새마을운동의 역사적 조망과 현재적 의미” (The New Village Movement

in Korea in Historical Perspective and Current Meaning) in Ilcheong Yi and Thandika

Mkandawire, eds.,한국적 개발 모델의 교훈 (Lessons from the Korean Development Model)

(Seoul: KOICA), Ch. 7.

Won Bae Kim, Mike Douglass, Se Hoon Park and Min Yeong Kim (2009), Dong Asia Choguggyeongjeok Jiyeok Hyeongseonggwa Doshijeonryak (Transborder Regional Development and Urban Stragegy in East Asia) [in Korean], (Anyang: Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements Monograph).

Mike Douglass (2008), “Thanh Pho Song Tot: Qua Trinh Toan Cau Hoa Cuoc Song Thanh Thi Va Khong Gian Cong Cong O Chau A Thai Binh Duong” (Livable Cities: Globalizing City Life and Civic Space in Pacific Asia), Vietnamese Journal of Sociology (in Vietnamese).

Mike Douglass, et al., Historic Preservation in a Livable City – International Perspective on the Urban Transition, Responsible Tourism and World Heritage Designation for the Han Chang’an Site, Xi’an, China (Xi’an, Northwest University Dept of Archeology [in Chinese] and Honolulu., Department of Urban & Regional Planning and the Globalization Research Center).

Mike Douglass (2008), “Livable Cities: Neoliberal v. Convivial Modes of Urban Planning in Seoul” (in Korean and English), The Korea Spatial Planning Review, 59, 3~36.

Working Paper Series

Mike Douglass (2016), “The Rise of Progressive Cities in Asia: Toward Human Flourishing in Asia’s Urban Transition.” Singapore: Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series No. 248.

Mike Douglass (2013), “Creative Communities Versus the Cultural Economy – The Vernacular City as an Alternative to Globopolis in Asia.” National University of Singapore, Department of Sociology, Working Paper 194).

Mike Douglass (2013), “The Urban Transition of Environmental Disaster Governance in Asia.” Singapore: Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series No. 210.

Mike Douglass (2013) “The Saemaul Undong: South Korea’s Rural Development Miracle in

Historical Perspective.” Singapore: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Working Paper Series No. 197.

Mike Douglass (2012) “Global Householding and Social Reproduction: Migration Research, Dynamics and Public Policy in East and Southeast Asia,” Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Working Paper Series No. 188.

ANY OTHER INFORMATION

2013 • Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Bellagio with Urban Knowledge Network Asia (Leiden).

2011 • Recipient with colleagues in Vietnam of the 2011 Bui Xuan Phai Award given in Vietnam to

those who are noted for showing a love for the culture of Hanoi.


• Finalist for the ‘Mentor of the Year’ Award for graduate programs at the University of Hawai’i (2006 and 2011).

2009 • College Award for Excellence in Research 2008-2009, College of Social Sciences, University

of Hawaii.

2008 • Visiting Scholar funded by the Korea Research Institute of Human Settlements (KRIHS),

Seoul, Korea (August).

2006 • Runner-up for University of Hawai’i ‘Mentor of the Year’.

2004 • Visiting Professor, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Funded by

NUS.

2002 • College Award for Excellence in Research 2001-2002, College of Social Sciences, University

of Hawaii. • Stellar Ph.D. Alumni, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA

2001 • Selected as a Fulbright Senior Specialist on urban planning. • Canada Research Chair, Urbanization in Asia, Government of Canada and University of

British Columbia (selected as being among top 5 scholars in this area in the world).

2000 • Visiting Scholar and Professor, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Institute of International

Studies, Stanford University • Meyer Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS), July.

Meyer Foundation, NUS.

1998 • Fellowship for Team Research Workshop on Managing Mega-urban Regions of Pacific Asia,

Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, May 27-June 3. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. • Shorenstein Distinguished Lecture, “East Asian Urbanization -- Patterns, Problems and

Prospects.” Funded by the Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. 23 April.

1996 • Perloff Chair in Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA. Jan-Jun.

1995 • Visiting Fellow, Centre for Urban Planning and Environmental Management (CUPEM), Hong

Kong University. Funded by CUPEM.

1989 • Research Fellow, UN Centre of Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan. Urban planning

project for Yogyakarta and regional development in the borderless age in Southeast Asia. Sep-Dec.

1985 • Visiting Scholar, Tokyo University, Economics. Funded by Japan Society for the Promotion

of Science. All of 1985.

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