Kah-Wee Lee

Kah-Wee Lee is Associate Director of the Master of Urban Planning programme at the National University of Singapore where he teaches history and theory of planning and qualitative methods. He works on the relationships between space and power, particularly through the lenses of modern expertise such as architecture, urban planning, law and public administration. His current project, "Casino Urbanism", examines the expansion of the casino industry across Singapore, Manila and Macau and asks how licit and illicit channels of capital flow are transforming these cities. Lee’s research has been published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Environment and Planning A and C, Geoforum, and local professional journals. He is the author of Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity (2018).

Companies

• Fellow Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies (2021)
• Associate Professor National University of Singapore (2020)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2013 — 2020)
• Associate Asia Research Institute (2014 — 2017)
• Visiting Scholar University of Macau (2016 — 2016)
• Visiting Scholar in Residence Yale University (2014 — 2014)
• Graduate Student Instructor UC Berkeley (2007 — 2012)
• Research Fellow University of Nevada Las Vegas (2011 — 2011)
• Design Instructor National University of Singapore (2005 — 2007)

Education

• PhD University of California, Berkeley (2007 — 2012)
• Masters of Arts National University of Singapore (2005 — 2007)
• Bachelor's degree University of New South Wales (1996 — 2000)