What follows is a record of my publications, both academic and non-academic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peer-reviewed journal articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Evolution of Tokyo’s Commercial Amenities: A Multi-Layered Spatial Analysis of Three Mixed-Use Neighborhoods\u201d, with Jessica Ilunga and Jorge Almaz\u00e1n, Cities <\/em>163.8 (2025). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cities.2025.106033<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVision and Practice: The 1967 Robson Report on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government\u201d, Planning Perspectives <\/em>39.4 <\/em>(2024): 881-901 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02665433.2023.2241434<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGeneric Neighbourhood Features of an Egalitarian City: the Postwar \u2018Tokyo Model\u2019\u201d, Cities <\/em>131.12 (2022). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cities.2022.103920<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIntra-urban inequalities during rapid development: space egalitarianism in Tokyo between 1955-1975\u201d, International Journal for Urban Sustainable Development <\/em>13.2 (2021): 368-382. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/19463138.2021.1907749<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUrban Space as a Factor of Production: Accounting for the Success of Small Factories in Postwar Tokyo\u201d, Social Science Japan Journal<\/em> 23.2 (2020): 281-298. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ssjj\/jyaa013<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cArchitectural Guide Yangon\u201d, with E. Fox and M. Oka, DOM publishers, 2015, 400 pp. (more here<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peer-reviewed book chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTokyo.\u201d in Oxford Bibliographies Urban Studies<\/em>. Ed. Dilworth, R. (ed.). New York. Oxford University Press. August 2022. https:\/\/doi.10.1093\/OBO\/9780190922481-0059<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Book reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEmergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City.\u201d Urban Studies <\/em>60.10 (2023): 2000-2005. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00420980231171302<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n PhD dissertation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUrban Space in Economic History: Tokyo as Asia\u2019s First Megacity 1945-1970\u201d, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2018, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24545\/00001650<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Non-peer reviewed articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “How Tokyo, Jakarta and Asia’s other megacities can learn from each other”, Nikkei Asia, <\/em>18 January 2026 (link<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTokyo’s modernization must not endanger unique neighborhoods\u201d, Nikkei Asia, <\/em>24 August 2025 (link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStones of Memory: Yangon\u2019s Architectural Heritage in Times of Flux\u201d, Caravanserai <\/em>(the magazine of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs), July 2025 (link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDas Tokyo der Nachkriegszeit und st\u00e4dtische Wirtschaftsgeschichte: Asiens erste Mega-City und ihr einzigartiger urbaner Raum\u201c [in German, \u201cPostwar Tokyo and Urban Economic History: Asia\u2019s First Megacity and its Unique Urban Space\u201d], in OAG Notizen <\/em>(Bulletin of the German East Asiatic Society), November 2021, pp. 10-27<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cConcrete Battleground: Two Western Architects in Myanmar\u201d, in Arch+ Issue 243: Contested Modernities \u2013 Postcolonial Architecture and the Construction of Identities in Southeast Asia, <\/em>September 2021 [German edition published in May 2021]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA Potpourri of Concrete Nation-Building: Naypyidaw\u201d, Disegno Quarterly Journal of Design, <\/em>Issue 29, Summer 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Tokyo Moment: What Developing Cities Can Learn From The Postwar Japanese Capital\u201d, The Metropole <\/em>(official blog of the Urban History Association), 25 February 2021 (link<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What follows is a record of my publications, both academic and non-academic. Peer-reviewed journal articles: \u201cThe Evolution of Tokyo’s Commercial Amenities: A Multi-Layered Spatial Analysis of Three Mixed-Use Neighborhoods\u201d, with Jessica Ilunga and Jorge Almaz\u00e1n, Cities 163.8 (2025). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cities.2025.106033 \u201cVision … Continue reading