Dr. Terry McGee (5 January 1936-26 June 2025) enjoyed retirement in Victoria and spending time with his wife, Lori and his grandchildren. He served as the Director of the Institute of Asian Research at UBC (1978-1992; July 1995 – December 1998) and President of the CAG, winner of the CAG Award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography (2000), Laureat Prix International de Geographie Vautrin Lud (2009) which is commonly regarded as “Nobel Prize of Geography”, the medal of the highest honour from the Vietnamese Government; identified as one of the 50 key thinkers on development (along with Walter Rostow, Albert Hirsman, Gunnar Mydral, Karl Marx, and Mao Zedong) (see David Simon, 2006, p. 176), author of The Southeast Asian City (1967–Terry was 31 years old then); The Urbanization Process in the Third World (1971—Terry was 35 years old then); Theatres of Accumulation: Studies in Asian and Latin American Urbanization (1985); China’s Urban Space (2007); and numerous articles; iconic and legendary scholarly contributions to the studies of the Southeast Asian City, Third World Urbanization, human settlement transition, and extended metropolitan regions (desakota) in Asia.