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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

* (2000) Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography[2]
* (2009) Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud[3]

## References[edit]

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.

## Other sources[edit]

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

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Recipients of the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize

* Peter Haggett (1991)
* Torsten Hägerstrand and Gilbert F. White (1992)
* Peter Gould (1993)
* Milton Santos (1994)
* David Harvey (1995)
* Roger Brunet and Paul Claval (1996)
* Jean-Bernard Racine (1997)
* Doreen Massey (1998)
* Ron Johnston (1999)
* Yves Lacoste (2000)
* Peter Hall (2001)
* Bruno Messerli (2002)
* Allen J. Scott (2003)
* Philippe Pinchemel (2004)
* Brian Berry (2005)
* Heinz Wanner (2006)
* Mike Goodchild (2007)
* Horacio Capel Sáez (2008)
* Terry McGee (2009)
* Denise Pumain (2010)
* Antoine Bailly (2011)
* Yi-Fu Tuan (2012)
* Michael Batty (2013)
* Anne Buttimer (2014)
* Edward Soja (2015)
* Maria Dolors García Ramón (2016)
* Akin Mabogunje (2017)
* Jacques Lévy (2018)
* John A. Agnew (2019)
* Rudolf Brázdil (2020)
* Brenda Yeoh (2021)

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