John Wong - The Challenge of Making Cities Liveable in East Asia

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Names: Lye, Liang Fook, editor. | Wong, John, 1939 editor.

Title: The challenge of making cities liveable in East Asia / edited by Liang Fook Lye, John Wong.

Description: Singapore : World Scientific, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016008380 | ISBN 9789813109735

Subjects: LCSH: Sustainable urban development--Asia. | Urbanization--Asia. | Urban renewal--Asia.

Classification: LCC HT243.A77 C43 2016 | DDC 307.3/416095--dc23

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Contents

John WONG and LYE Liang Fook

KHOO Teng Chye

John WONG and ZHAO Litao

PHAM Thuy Loan

Adoracion M. NAVARRO

Mazlena MAZLAN

ZHOU Zhihua

CUI Haining

KIM Joo-young

Kaoru ISHIKAWA

A bout the Editors and Contributor s

John WONG is Professorial Fellow and academic adviser at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. Previously, he was Research Director at EAI and Director of the Institute of East Asian Political Economy. Professor Wong also taught at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore and Florida State University. He had held visiting appointments at Harvard Universitys Fairbank Centre, Yales Economic Growth Centre, Oxford Universitys St Antonys College and Stanford Universitys economics department. He also held the ASEAN chair at the University of Toronto. Professor Wong has written and edited 35 books and published more than 500 articles and papers on China and other East Asian economies. He has also circulated over 90 policy-related reports to the Singapore government. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of London.

LYE Liang Fook is Assistant Director and Research Fellow at the EAI, National University of Singapore. His research interests cover Chinas central-local relations, political legitimacy, the print media, China-ASEAN relations and China-Singapore relations. He was part of a team that completed a study on the Suzhou Industrial Park, a flagship project between China and Singapore. He has also conducted research on the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city project, the second flagship project between China and Singapore. He attended the Hanban programme for distinguished scholars in China studies in 2009. His publications have appeared in Routledge, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Journal of Chinese Political Science , Eastern Universities Press, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) Publishing, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Publishing, World Scientific Press and China: An International Journal . Besides his involvement in the academia, he manages the Singapore Secretariat of the Network of East Asian Think Tanks (NEAT) and the Network of ASEAN-China Think Tanks (NACT), two Track II bodies that aim to foster ASEAN Plus Three cooperation and ASEAN Plus One cooperation, respectively.

KHOO Teng Chye is Executive Director of the Centre for Liveable Cities. He was previously Chief Executive of PUB, Singapores national water agency, Chief Executive Officer/Chief Planner of Urban Redevelopment Authority, Chief Executive Officer/Group President of PSA Corporation, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mapletree Investments and Managing Director (Special Projects) of Temasek Holdings. He sits on the boards of Tropical Marine Science Institute of National University of Singapore (NUS) and GDF Suezs Urban Strategy Council. He is a member of the Advisory Board of World Future Foundation, the Advisory Committee for the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the Advisory Panel of NUSDeltares and the Advisory Group of Singapore Management Universitys Master of Tri-Sector Collaboration Programme. He is also an adjunct professor at NTUs School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS. He is a member of the Jurong Lake District Steering Committee, as well as the Advisory Committee for the formation of the new capital for the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. He graduated with First Class Honours in Civil Engineering from Monash University, Australia. A President-cum-Colombo Plan scholar, he also holds a Master of Science in Construction Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from NUS. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore and attended the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. He was awarded the Public Administration (Gold) in 1996 and the Public Administration (Silver) in 1987 by the Singapore government. He was also conferred the Meritorious Service Award by the National Trade Union Congress in 2008 for his contributions to the Singapore Labour Movement.

ZHAO Litao is Senior Research Fellow at the EAI, National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD in sociology from Stanford University. His research interests include social stratification and mobility, sociology of education, organisational analysis and Chinas social policy. His research has appeared in China Quarterly, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, International Journal of Educational Development, Social Sciences in China, Built Environment, China: An International Journal, East Asian Policy, Frontiers of Education in China, Issues and Studies , and so on. He has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited six books, including Chinas Social Development and Policy (Routledge 2013) and Singapores Social Development in Transition (in Chinese, World Scientific 2013).

PHAM Thuy Loan is Deputy Director of the Vietnam National Institute of Architecture (VIAr) in the Ministry of Construction, Vietnam. She began her career in urban planning and design since 2004 upon completion of her masters and doctorate programme in Urban Design Laboratory at the Department of Urban Engineering in the University of Tokyo. She then worked in the Department of Urban Planning at the National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE) from 2004 to 2014. She became the head of the department since 2008 until she moved to the VIAr in the Ministry of Construction. She was involved in a wide spectrum of urban design and planning projects such as The Study for Roadside Station Master Plan in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (20072008), Socio-economic Development Strategy for Long An Province until 2020 and the Vision for 2030 (20092010), Provincial Development Strategy for Quang Nam Province (20102011), The Study on the Comprehensive Urban Development Programme in Hanoi Capital City (20042005), Integrated Urban Development for Urban Mass Rapid Transportation Development for Hanoi (2009), Master Plan for Da Nang City and the Surrounding Region (20082010) and other projects of smaller scales. Her current interests focus on improving the legal framework of urban planning and design in Vietnam, as well as technical practices in the field of planning and design.