Faculty Details

C. Michael Douglass

facultyimage Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Social Sciences Bldg 107C

(808) 956-7381
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Educational Background

B.A. (cum laude), University of California at Los Angeles, 1967
M.A., University of Hawaii, 1968
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1982 


Research / Teaching / Specializations

Asian cities: globalization and urban policy, urban environmental management and rural-urban linkages, and environmental management and relationships between culture and power with emphasis on Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore

 

Distinctions

Visiting Professor and Scholar, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, January - June 2000
Meyer Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies, National University of Singapore, July 2000
Invited as keynote speaker for conferences in Hong Kong and Singapore, 2000
Invited to read 12 papers at conferences 1999-2000
Invited to read three papers in 1998-99 in the Philippines, Thailand and Stanford

 

Courses Taught

PLAN 602: Spatial Planning Theory
PLAN 630: Urban and Regional Planning in Asia
PLAN 635: Industrialization and Development Planning in Asia and Pacific
PLAN 633: Globalization and Urban Policy on the Pacific Rim (cross-listed as GEOG 633)
PLAN 639: Planning for Rural Development (cross-listed as GEOG 639)

 

Recent Publications

Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society, co-edited with Glenda Roberts, London: Routledge, 2000

Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society in a Global Age, co-edited with John Friedmann, London: John Wiley, 1998

Culture and the City in East Asia, co-edited with Won Bae Kim and Sung-Chuel Choe, Oxford Univ. Press, 1997

Industrializing Cities and the Environment in Pacific Asia: Toward a Policy Framework and Agenda for Action, in David Angel and Michael Rock, eds., A Clean Revolution in Asia, Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2000, pp. 104-127

The singularities of female migration to Japan: Past, present and future, in M. Douglass and G. Roberts, eds., Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society, London: Routledge, pp. 91-120

Japan in a Global Age of Migration, in M. Douglass and G. Roberts, eds., Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society, London: Routledge, pp. 3-37

Geographies of resilience: Slums, squatters and community-state relations in Seoul and Bangkok, Plurimondi, 2, (July-Dec, 1999), 213-233

Unbundling national identity -- Global migration and the advent of multicultural societies in East Asia, Asian Perspectives, 23:3, 1999, 79-128

Beyond dualism: Rethinking theories of development in a global-local framework, Regional Development Dialogue, Spring, 19:1, 1998, 1-18

A regional network strategy for reciprocal rural-urban linkages: An agenda for policy research with reference to Indonesia, Third World Planning Review, 20:1, 1998, 1-33

Structural Change and Urbanization in Indonesia: from the 'Old' to the New International Division of Labor, in Gavin Jones and Visaria, eds., Urbanization in Large Developing Countries, Pergamon Press, 1996

Global Interdependence and Urbanization: Planning for the Bangkok Mega-Urban Region, in T.G. McGee and Ira Robinson, eds., The New Southeast Asia: Managing the Mega-urban Regions (Vancouver: Univ. British Columbia Press), pp. 45-79. 1995

Sustainable Cities from the Grassroots: Livelihood, Habitat and Social Networks in Suan Phlu, Bangkok, Third World Planning Review, 16:2, 171-200. 1994

Urban Poverty and Policy Alternatives in Asia, in UNESCAP, State of Urbanization in Asia. (Bangkok: UNESCAP, Division of Industry, Human Settlements and Environment), Ch. 4. 1993

Urban and Regional Development Policy for the 7th Five-Year Plan in Thailand. Bangkok: Thailand Development and Research Institute Foundation and the National Economic and Social Development Board, Royal Government of Thailand. 1990