What follows is a record of my publications, both academic and non-academic. This list is occasionally being updated.
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
“The Evolution of Tokyo’s Commercial Amenities: A Multi-Layered Spatial Analysis of Three Mixed-Use Neighborhoods”, with Jessica Ilunga and Jorge Almazán, Cities 163.8 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106033
“Vision and Practice: The 1967 Robson Report on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government”, Planning Perspectives 39.4 (2024): 881-901 https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2241434
“Generic Neighbourhood Features of an Egalitarian City: the Postwar ‘Tokyo Model’”, Cities 131.12 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103920
“Intra-urban inequalities during rapid development: space egalitarianism in Tokyo between 1955-1975”, International Journal for Urban Sustainable Development 13.2 (2021): 368-382. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2021.1907749
“Urban Space as a Factor of Production: Accounting for the Success of Small Factories in Postwar Tokyo”, Social Science Japan Journal 23.2 (2020): 281-298. https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyaa013
Books:
“Architectural Guide Yangon”, with E. Fox and M. Oka, DOM publishers, 2015, 400 pp. (more here)
Peer-reviewed book chapters:
“Tokyo.” in Oxford Bibliographies Urban Studies. Ed. Dilworth, R. (ed.). New York. Oxford University Press. August 2022. https://doi.10.1093/OBO/9780190922481-0059
Book reviews:
“Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City.” Urban Studies 60.10 (2023): 2000-2005. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231171302
PhD dissertation:
“Urban Space in Economic History: Tokyo as Asia’s First Megacity 1945-1970”, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2018, https://doi.org/10.24545/00001650
Non-peer reviewed articles:
“Tokyo’s modernization must not endanger unique neighborhoods”, Nikkei Asia, 24 August 2025 (link)
“Stones of Memory: Yangon’s Architectural Heritage in Times of Flux”, Caravanserai (the magazine of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs), July 2025 (link)
“Das Tokyo der Nachkriegszeit und städtische Wirtschaftsgeschichte: Asiens erste Mega-City und ihr einzigartiger urbaner Raum“ [in German, “Postwar Tokyo and Urban Economic History: Asia’s First Megacity and its Unique Urban Space”], in OAG Notizen (Bulletin of the German East Asiatic Society), November 2021, pp. 10-27
“Concrete Battleground: Two Western Architects in Myanmar”, in Arch+ Issue 243: Contested Modernities – Postcolonial Architecture and the Construction of Identities in Southeast Asia, September 2021 [German edition published in May 2021]
“A Potpourri of Concrete Nation-Building: Naypyidaw”, Disegno Quarterly Journal of Design, Issue 29, Summer 2021
“The Tokyo Moment: What Developing Cities Can Learn From The Postwar Japanese Capital”, The Metropole (official blog of the Urban History Association), 25 February 2021 (link)