Copy To: Greg Fant, PRCUD Legal Counsel

Date: June 14, 1999

Memo to: PRCUD Members

Copy to: Greg Fant, PRCUD Legal Counsel

From: Eric J. Heikkila, PRCUD Executive Secretary

Subject: Newsmemo

PRCUD Kaohsiung Report

The PRCUD Kaohsiung Report is now ready for distribution. This document is significant for a number of reasons. First, it is full of insights on the development opportunities and challenges facing Kaohsiung today and tomorrow. Second, it is the outcome of a remarkable collaborative process involving dozens of urban development professionals from throughout the Pacific region. Third, it marks the successful transition of the PRCUD annual event from a conference to a round table format. But most importantly, the PRCUDKaohsiung Report is significant because of the dialogue that it encapsulates. For the better part of three days, a remarkably diverse and accomplished group of individuals held forth on a wide range of issues pertaining to Kaohsiung’s future development prospects. That dialogue was mutually enriching and informative, and this Report is a tangible representation of that fact.

Thank you to all who made this possible! The production of the PRCUD Kaohsiung Report is the result of a transnational production process. The Report’s Managing Editor, Jeanette Barbieri, flew in from Beijing to assist in the process. Ms. Barbieri is a former Administrative Assistant to PRCUD and is currently pursuing her doctorate in political science at the University of Southern California, where she specializes in Chinese politics. Above all, it is to Jeanette Barbieri’s impressive linguistic, managerial, analytical and diplomatic skills that the Report’s cogency and completeness can be attributed. She worked closely with the six PRCUD session chairs and each of the presenters to ensure that all of the presentation and discussion materials are well integrated into the report.

Further editing and processing took place in Los Angeles at the PRCUD Secretariat with skillful guidance from the Copy Editor, Ms. Alicia Kitsuse, a graduate student of urban planning at the University of Southern California. PRCUD Administrative Assistant Emel Yucekus, a doctoral student in urban planning at USC, managed transactions to ensure that the right version of the document was in the right hands at all times. After the draft Report was disseminated to the various contributors via email and fax for final revisions and review, the completed Report was then sent electronically to Singapore, for final production care of PRCUD President Lan-Yuan Lim, who is Head of the School for Building and Estate Management at the National University of Singapore. Our Singapore Office has sent the Report to us in two batches. The first batch has now arrived and is being distributed to those who participated in the PRCUD Kaohsiung event. The remaining copies will be distributed the moment we receive them from Singapore. We envision producing a companion PRCUD Long Beach Report this year, and we invite all members of PRCUD to register their interest in participating as session chairs for that event.

Preparations Underway for the 1999 Forum and Professional Visit (by Richard Watson, President of the Southern California Chapter)

On 3 October 1999 at approximately 18:00 the Council will convene at 34 degrees, 46 minutes north latitude and 118 degrees, 12 minutes west longitude to begin the 1999 PRCUD Forum and Professional Visit. Local Council members and others in the Southern California Chapter are busy arranging venues and programs for the Forum.

We will meet in Long Beach, California which is just a few miles southeast of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Long Beach is a port city with a population of approximately 425,000. It is the second largest city in Los Angeles County and the fifth largest city in California. Long Beach is a city remaking itself.

Our theme this year is “Repositioning Pacific Rim Cities,” and Long Beach is the perfect location to examine the various aspects of repositioning a city and to examine the processes of doing so. As the second city of Los Angeles County, it was steadily declining until local leaders initiated an aggressive program to reposition the city by focusing on the key factors of tourism, trade, technology and transportation. Our three days will focus on how these factors have been expressed in 1) Retailing and Entertainment, 2) Transportation and 3) Economic and Community Development.

Our base of operations (and hotel) will be the Queen Mary which is itself a grand example of repositioning.The once grand ocean liner is now a major tourist attraction and meeting place in Long Beach Harbor. The staterooms are currently being refurbished to replicate the elegance of the Queen Mary’s glory years.

Please mark your calendars for 3-6 October 1999. More information to follow.

Long Beach Skyline

LONG BEACH QUICK FACTS

Area: 50 square miles
Population: 425,000
Population per square mile (1992): 8,775
Median Household Income (1989): 31,938
Total Visitors (annual): ~4.3 million

Total Employment (1990) 235,027
Unemployment Rate (1991): 7.7%
Labor Force % change (1980-1990): 24.7
% of civilian labor force employed in manufacturing (1990): 20.4

Map of Long Beach

Greeted by a flotilla of vessels, Queen Mary (the world's largest passenger ship afloat) arrives in New York Harbor-circa June 1, 1936 (a few months after her Maiden voyage).

Just a Little Reminder:

It's time to RENEW your PRCUD Membership for the year 1999-2000.

The Basin Forum in Vancouver and PRCUD

Michael Harcourt, the Honorary Chairman of PRCUD (also former British Columbia Premier and Vancouver Mayor), recently launched an interdisciplinary Forum by which PRCUD may enhance its global reach and impact. The Forum took place in Vancouver, Canada, from May 27th until May 29th in the format of a workshop, and it focused on Actions for a Sustainable Basin, geared specifically to the Georgia Basin and Puget Sound. The Forum addressed various themes including transportation, human health, water quality, wildlife and habitat, economic transition, population, and implementation.

The Basin Forum in Vancouver featured leading speakers, facilitators, and participants representing government, business, civil society, media and academe. The Forum also contributed to defining effective decision making processes and action plans for more sustainable cities and regions in Canada as well as in other parts of the world.

PRCUD Members from Los Angeles participated in the event with a view to incorporating this experience in the design of future PRCUD events. The interlude between the Vancouver Forum and the PRCUD Forum in October is an excellent opportunity to lay the groundwork for coordinated implementation of parallel efforts throughout the Pacific Rim. It is now widely accepted that the ecological, economic, and social contexts for environmental problems in the Pacific Rim transcend national boundaries, and so a coordinated, cooperative, and mutually supportive course of action is called for. PRCUD is well positioned to respond to this call.

PRCUD Website Update (by Emel Yucekus, PRCUD Administrative Assistant)

The PRCUD website is designed to provide useful information about

urban development and planning as well as to encourage a global dialogue and knowledge sharing in the Pacific Rim. To that end, our website not only introduces the PRCUD Council to others but also provides profiles of Council members (including Patron, Institutional and Individual Members) and keeps members up-to-date on urban development issues through Newsmemos and Reports. In addition, it includes various links to websites featuring cities in the Pacific Rim and to institutions related to urban development issues around the world.

For PRCUD's website we have recently improved the section on major cities in the Pacific Rim. Now you can easily find the maps and photos of Bangkok, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Hanoi or Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver. Or you can go to the websites of city councils, departments and ministries in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur, Kaohsiung, Seoul, Manila or Santiago, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo. We are looking forward to hearing about other important websites or photographs from you to be included in our website.

Through our new links, you can also access the websites of various organizations and institutions related to urban development, environment, real estate and planning. For those who wish to acquire statistics or basic information on the countries in the Pacific Rim or read the Human Development Report by UNDP, or take a look at the recent projects funded by the World Bank, or find a full text article from a journal, or read the newspapers of the countries in the Pacific Rim, this section is a wonderful place to start. To give you a better idea what kinds of links we have featured on our website, we have enclosed a list of these links.

LINKS FROM THE PRCUD WEBSITE

Resources on Development

African Development Bank
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Asian Development Bank
Bank for International Settlements
Brazilian Development Bank
Canadian International Development Agency
Central American Bank for Economic Integration
Centre for Economic Reform and Transition
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
European Centre for Developing Policy Management
European Investment Bank
Grameen Bank
Institute for Development Research
Institute for Development Studies
Inter-American Development Bank
International Development Research Centre
International Monetary Fund
Japan Development Bank
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Korea Development Bank
National Center for Development Studies (On Asia)
North American Development Bank
North-South Institution
Organization for Ec. Cooperation and Dev.
Overseas Development Council
Overseas Development Institute
UN Conference on Trade and Development
UN Development Programme
US Agency for International Development
World Bank

Resources on Environment and Sustainable Development

Council on Environmental Quality
Earth Times Daily Web Edition
Envirolink Library
Environmental News Network
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Global Resource Information Database
Green Grobe Yearbook of Inter.Coop.
Institute for Sustainable Development
Int. Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
Int. Institute on Environment and Development
International Institute for Sustainable Development
National Association of Environmental Professionals
Sierra Club
Sustainable Communities Network
Sustainable Development Research Institute
The Club of Rome
UN Environment Programme
Urban Environmental Forum
World Watch

Resources on Urban Planning

ACSP 1999
AESOP 1999
American Institute of Certified Planners
American Planning Association
Congress for New Urbanism
Cyburbia Planning Resource Directory
History of Urban Planning (1794-1918)
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Intergov. Com. on Urban and Reg. Research
Megacities 2000 Foundation
Planners' Network
Planning Databases
TAUB Urban Resources Center
The Urban Institute

Resources on International Development

APA International Division
Best Practices for Human Settlements
Canadian Urban Institute
Center for International Development
City Profiles (UN)
Forum: Habitat in Developing Countries
Harvard Institute for International Development
Human Development Report (UNDP)
Human Settlements in Asia
Inst. for H. & U.Development S.(NL)
International City County Management Association
International CUPID Database
International Development Exchange
International Development Research Council
International Research and Exchanges Board
International Society for City and Regional Planners
International Union of Local Authorities
International Urban Development Association
Society for International Development
UN Habitat
Virtual Library on International Development
World Development Report

Resources on Real Estate

American Real Estate and Urban Ecs. Assoc.
American Real Estate Society
Asian Real Estate Society
Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate
Australian Institute of Valuers and Land Economists
Canadian Institute of Public Real Estate Companies
Commercial Real Estate Network
Councelors of Real Estate
Institute of Real Estate Management
Int. Assoc. of R.E. Executives
International Development Research Centre
International Real Estate Federation
International Real Estate Institute
International Real Estate Society
Japan Real Estate Institution
Latin American Real Estate Society
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
National Council for Urban Economic Development
Pacific Rim Real Estate Society
Pacific Rim Real Estate Society
Real Estate Cyberspace Society
Real Estate Educators Association
Real Estate Information Providers Association
Real Estate Institute of Canada
Real Estate Investment Association
Real Estate Research Institute
Urban Land Institute

Journals

American Economic Review (full text)
Berkeley Planning Journal (abstracts only)
Developmental Review (abstracts and sample issues)
Environmental Research (abstracts and sample issues)
Finance and Development (full text)
International Organization (full text)
Journal of Asian Studies (full text)
Journal of Comparative Economics (abstracts and sample issues)
Journal of Economic Perspectives (full text)
Journal of Economic Theory (abstracts and sample issues)
Journal of Housing Economics (abstracts and sample issues)
Journal of Political Economy (full text)
Journal of Property Research (abstracts and sample issues)
Journal of the Japanese & International Ecs. (abstracts and sample issues)
Journal of Urban Economics (abstracts and sample issues)
Journal of Urban Studies (abstracts only)
Planning Commissioners Journal (full text)
Planning Perspectives (abstracts and sample issues)
Population and Development (full text)
Quarterly Journal of Economics (full text)
Review of Development Economics (abstracts only)
Review of International Political Economy (abstracts and sample issues)
Urban Design International (abstracts and sample issues)
World Politics (full text)

Worldwide Country Information/Statistics Sources

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Big Emerging Markets (US Dept. of Commerce)
Canada (Common Wealth of Nations)
Chile National Institute of Statistics
CIA World Factbook
Country at a Glance(UN)
Demographic Indicators for Countries
Dow Jones
Economic and Financial Statistics (FRED)
FAO Statistics Database
FEDSTATS
Global Trends (UN)
Green Globe Country Profiles
Infonation(UN)
International Data Base (US Census Bureau)
International Economic Statistics 1997 (CIA)
Library of Congress Country Studies
Malaysia (Common Wealth of Nations)
OECD Statistics
Pacific Data on Commerce and Business
Singapore (Common Wealth of Nations)
Stat USA (needs subscription)
Statistical Data Locators
Statistical Tables 1997 (UNICEF)
Statistics-Canada
Statistics-Indonesia
Statistics-Singapore
The Progress of Nations 1998(UNICEF)
UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
US Census Bureau
World Economic Outlook 1998 (IMF)

Newspapers

World News

International Herald Tribune
ABC News
Nando Times Global
CNN Interactive
BBC News
World Newspapers

News in Chile

Santiago Times
Chile: Estrategia
El Mercurio S.A.P.

News in China

South China Morning Post
Xinhua News Agency
Shanghai Daily
China Times

News in Hong Kong

China Informed (incl. China, Taiwan & Hong Kong)
Hong Kong Standard
Hong Kong Commercial Daily

News in Indonesia

Antara
Kompas Newspapers
Republika

News in Japan

Japan Times
Nikkei Net
Asahi Newspaper

News in Philippines

Manila Times
Filipino Express
Philippine News Link

News in Malaysia

Daily Express
Malaysia News and Views

News in South Korea

Korea Times
Chosun Ilbo

New Straits Times
The Star

Joong Ang Ilbo

News in Taiwan

Taiwan News Today
China News (from Taiwan)

News in Thailand

Business Day
Bangkok Post
Nation Multi Media Group

News in the United States

Wall Street Journal
New York Times
Washington Post

News in Canada

Canadian Press
Toronto Star

Los Angeles Times

News in Vietnam

Saigon Times Daily
Nhan Dan

News in Australia

Canberra Times
Sydney Morning Herald
Herald Sun

News in Singapore

The Straits Time
The Business Times
TCS News