What follows is a record of my publications, both academic and non-academic.
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:
“How Tokyo, Jakarta and Asia’s other megacities can learn from each other”, Nikkei Asia, 18 January 2026 (link)
“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)