Wu Liangyong， Born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, graduated from the Department of Ar- chitecture at National Central University in Chongqing in 1944 with a Bachelor Degree of Engineering, Professor Wu Liangyong went to the Cranbrook A eademy of Art, Beomfield G Hills, Michigan in 1948 and received Master De gree of Architecture and Urban Design. After his return to the motherland in 1950, he has been continued in teaching at the Department of Architecuture at Tsinghua University till now.He was selected as a member of both Chinese Academia Sciences in 1980 and a member of Chinese Academia of Engineer- ing in 1995.

Professor Wu has dedicated most of his lifetime to architectural educa- tion in China. And was awarded the jean Tschumi Prize by UIN in 1996. As an outstanding architect and planner. Professor Wu has archieved marked suc eess in practical work.Since the 1950s, holding the consultant of urban plan ning and construction in many Chinese cities, as well as at various depart ments concerned, he has led or taken part in projects of urban planning, urban design and architectural design over tens, most of which, including the Plan ning and Design of the National Libra,/of Beijing (1976), the Planning and Design of the Enlargement of Tian An Men Square ( 1978), the Urban Design Plan for Conservation of the Central Area of Guilin (1978), the Campus Plan ning and Design of the national Academy of Are (1994) and the Planning and design of the Research Institute of Confucius ( 1996 ), have been adopted to different extent by the local authorities and the departments concerned and some been awarded Especially, the project of Rehabilitation of Beijing and New CourLyard House Complex Development at Ju er Hutong. which he is in charge of, won the Gold Medal for Architecture of ARCASIA in 1992, and the World Habitat Award in United Nations in 1993. Professor Wu also has been active in exploring the basic theories of architecture and urban planning.His theories of planning and design are explicated in a series of his publications, including A Brief History of Ancient Chinese City Planning ( 1985 ,in English), SelectedEssaysonUrbanPlanningandDesign (1986), A General Theory of Architecture (I 989), The Old City of Beijing and Its Juer Hutong Neighbor- hood(1994), Towards A New Century= Wu Liangyong s Selected Essays on Urban Studies 1987-96(1996) and The Introduction Sciences of Human Set- tlements(2OOl ) Moreover, Professor Wu has played sa significant part in a cademic and professional circles both nationally and internationally He had worked in feuding national professional bodies such as the Chinese Architec tural Society, the Urban Planning Society of China and the Chinese Society for Urban Studies.

Mike Douglass is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii ( UH )

He received a Ph.D. in Urban Planning at UCLA. A specialist in urban and regional planning in Asia, he has lived and worked for many years in Asia,including Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Thailand. He has joined numerous research and planning proiects throughout the region and has been a consultant for such institutions as the United Nations, the World Sank, USAID, World Resources Institute, and national and local governments in Asia Awards and honors include the Meyer Fellowship, University of Singapore (2000), Visiting Professor and Scholar at Stanford University (2000), Shorenstein Distinguished Lecturer, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University (1998); Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Bellagio (1998); Perloff Chair in Urban Planning at UCLA (1996; Senior Research Fellow at the East-West Center ( 1993-present ); Japan Society for Promotion of Science Visiting Scholar, Tokyo University (19855. The University of Hawaii has identified him as one of its ninety fabulous faculty Recent publications include:Mike Douglass, et al. (2002), The Urban Transition in Vietnam (UNCHS/UNDP) Mike Douglass and John Friedmann, eds (19985, Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society in a Global Age (London: JohnWileySMikeDouglass, etal eds., (1997), Culture and the City in East Asia (Oxford University PressS.Mike Douglass (2001), Inter-City Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience Globalization and the Asian Crisis, in Allen J. Scott, ed, Global City-Regions Trends, Theory, Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 236-262Mike Douglass (2002), From GIobal Competition to Cooperadtion for livable Cities and Economic Resilience in Pacific Asia, Environment and Urbanization, 14: 1, 53-68Mike Douglass (20005, Mega urban Regions and World City Formation; Globalization, the Economic Crisis and Urban Policy Issues in Pacific Asia, Urban Studies, 17 : 12,2317 2337.