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207 Contributors Davisi Boontharm (editor and contributor) has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore for five years, before joining the School of Architecture and Building at Deakin University, Melbourne, in 2011. She received her doctorate in Architecture and Urbanism from the University Paris 8 and JSPS PostDoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tokyo. She was Japan Foundation's Research Fellow at Sophia University in 2010, and has an ongoing research involvement at Keio University, Tokyo. Her research interests include culturally sustainable architecture and urbanism, commercial and creative precincts in Asian Cities, and creative reuse of vernacular urban form. She has published books in French, Thai and English, namely: Bangkok: Forme du Commerce et évolution urbaine (2005, IPRAUS & édition Recherche); City-Home (2006, Amarin Printing); Cross-Cultural Urban Design (2007, Routledge, with Bull, Parin, Radović, Tapie); and Harajuku: Urban Stage-Set Q&A (2008, Ichii Shobou and University of Tokyo). Lilian Chee is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture , National University of Singapore, where she teaches architectural history and theory, and research methodology. She obtained her PhD from University College London, UK in 2006. Her research interests cover issues on subjectivity, gender and feminist methodologies in architectural production ; domesticity, and interiority; and architectural production in film, art, and literature. Her major publications include: “Materializing the Tiger in the Archive”, in Lori Brown, ed. (2012, forthcoming); “Living with Freud”, in Julieanna Preston, ed. (2008); “A Web in the Garden”, in Pattern, eds. Ana Araujo, Jane Rendell and Jonathan Hill (2007); and “An Architecture of Twenty Words”, in Hilde Heynen and Gulsum Baydar, eds. (2005). Limin Hee (editor and contributor) is Associate Director at Singapore’s Center for Liveable Cities (CLC). Prior to joining the CLC, she taught at the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore, where she also led the Urban Studies Research and Teaching Group, and also held a joint appointment with the “Sustainable Cities“ cluster at the Asia Research Institute. Her research, focused on sustainability and its agenda for architecture and future cities, included several University and state-funded projects for which she was Principal Investigator, including “Urban Space Planning for Sustainable High Density Environments.“ She obtained her Doctor of Design from Harvard University in 2005, her Master of Arts (Architecture ) as well as her professional degree in Architecture from the National University of Singapore. Contributors 208 Thomas Andrew Hutton is Professor in the Centre for Human Settlements, University of British Columbia. He holds a BA in Geography from the University of British Columbia and a DPhil in Geography from Oxford University. His research concerns processes and outcomes of industrial restructuring in the metropolis and city-region, change in production systems, labor markets and land use, with special emphasis on the cultural economy of the city. His published works include: Service Industries and Asia-Pacific Cities: New Development Trajectories (co-edited with Daniels and Ho, Routledge, 2005), New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities (Routledge, forthcoming), Canadian Urban Regions: Trajectories of Growth and Change (co-edited with Bourne, Shearmur and Simmons, Oxford University Press, 2011), a special theme issue of Urban Studies on ‘trajectories of the new economy in the inner city’ (editor, Volume 46, issues 5 & 6, May 2009) and The New Economy of the Inner City (Routledge, 2008). Sung Hong Kim is Professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of Seoul. He studied architecture at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, University of California at Berkeley and Hanyang University in Seoul. He has been an organizer of the Korea-Germany Public Space Forum at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2005, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington in 2006, and organizer of the exhibition “Megacity Network: Contemporary Korean Architecture” in Frankfurt, Berlin, Tallinn, Barcelona and Seoul from 2007– 2010. He has been a provost of Planning and Research Office, University of Seoul from 2007–2008. He has several publications on contemporary Korean architecture and urbanism in Korean and English. Ah Eng Lai is currently on a joint appointment as Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute and Instructor at the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. She received training in economics at the University Sains Malaysia (1977), development studies at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex (1981) and social anthropology at Cambridge University, 1992. She has worked in various research capacities at the Consumers’ Association of Penang in Malaysia and at the Housing and Development Board, National Archives of Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and Institute of...