Aprodicio Laquian
Professor Laquian retired from UBC SCARP in 2000 after a brief stint as Chief-of-Staff of deposed President Joseph Estrada. Author of several books on urban planning in Asia and Filipino migration to Canada, Professor Laquian remained productive until his final years and engaged as a planning professional in numerous capacities as university administrator and international development consultant.
He served as acting director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s special program in urban and regional studies in Cambridge. He was also resident scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC; a consultant at the Asian Development Bank in China, and a coordinator for a study of basic urban services in seven hundred cities and towns in sixteen Asia-Pacific countries. This research project, funded by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) in Barcelona, was the topic of his last book.
He and his wife Eleanor are well-loved in the Filipino Canadian community in Metro Vancouver as volunteers of the Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights (CDWCR), founders of the Maple Bamboo Network Society (MBNS), and writers for this nonprofit that publishes the Canadian Filipino Net, an online-only news magazine.
