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New Zealand geographer

For the Australian rules footballer, see Terry McGee (footballer).

Terence Gary McGee, usually called Terry McGee (born January 1936) is an urban geographer and social scientist.

Key themes

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

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

McGee has been for many years