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Mee-Kam NG

B.A. (HKU), M.Sc. (HKU), Ph.D. (UCLA), MHKIP, MRTPI

Associate Professor
Urban and Regional Development, and Planning Systems in Pacific Asia

Mee-Kam Ng won the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Fellowship in 1988 to pursue a Ph.D. study in urban planning under the supervision of Professor John Friedmann at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She secured a teaching post in the Centre at the end of 1992, almost the same time as she obtained her Ph.D. degree. She was promoted to Associate Professorship in 1997. Her research interests include economic transition, urban and regional development, planning mechanisms, sustainability and planning for equity issues in Pacific Asia. Her publications received the Certificate of Merit and Silver Medal Awards of Hong Kong Institute of Planners.

Consultancy Experience

Mee-Kam Ng had contributed to a number of local consultancy studies involving knowledge on development and planning mechanisms in China and Pacific Asia.

Selected Publications

"Urban System Planning in China: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta Urban System Plan", Urban Geography. (forthcoming) (with W.S. Tang)

"Land Use Planning in 'One Country, Two Systems': Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen", International Planning Studies. (forthcoming) (with W.S. Tang)

"A Comparative Study of Urban Planning Mechanisms in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan", Progress in Planning. (forthcoming)

"Socialist Urban Planning in Transition: The Case of Guangzhou, China", Third World Planning Review, (1998), 20 (1), pp.35-51. (with J. Xu)

"Strategic Planning and the Territorial Development Strategy Review in Hong Kong", Hong Kong Public Administration, (1997), Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1997, pp. 31-59.

"Reclamation: an Urban Development Strategy under Fire", Land Use Policy, (1997), Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 5-23. (with A. Cook)

"Economic Transitions and Regional Disparities in Japan, Korea and Taiwan", Fourth Asian Urbanization Conference Proceedings, East Asia Occasional Paper #13, Asian Studies Centre, Michigan State University, (1996), pp.67-95.

"Human Resources Development and Labour Issues in Hong Kong: An Economy in Transition", Human Resources Development Outlook 1995-1996, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, (1996), pp.94-115.

"Urban and Regional Development" in Cheng, J.Y.S. and Lo, S., eds., From Colony to SAR: Hong Kong's Challenges Ahead, Hong Kong, Chinese University Press, (1995), pp.227-260.

"A Critique of the City Planning Act of the People's Republic of China: a Western Perspective", Third World Planning Review, (1995), 17 (3), pp.279-293. (with F.L. Wu)

"The Changing Role of the State in High Tech Industrial Development: the Experience of Hong Kong", Environment and Planning C, Government and Policy, (1994), Volume 12, pp.449-472. (with A.G.O. Yeh)

"Strategic Planning in Hong Kong" Town Planning Review, (1993), 64 (3), pp.287-311.

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