Acknowledgments
Laquian is professor emeritus of community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of Beyond Metropolis: The Planning and Governance of Asia's Mega-Urban Regions (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) and coeditor, with Vinod Tewari and Lisa M. Hanley, of The Inclusive City (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).