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Selected Writing | 随筆

Ambivalent Urbanism: Wright, Detroit, and the Civic Imagination (conference lecture)

City Planning: A Narrative (exhibition texts)

Sharing Tokyo (contributor, director of design research)

W.G. Clark’s Just Rewards

The Future of Lee Circle

Fudo/Umwelt (editor, with Kayoko Ota and Mohsen Mostafavi)

Daikanyama: Evolving Genealogy of Design

Reading List: The North Atlantic Cities

Japan Story: Design Research (contributing writer)

Column: Why We Should Support Richmond 300

Infrastructure, Imagination and the Possibility of Meaningful Change in Miami in Adapting Miami

Adapting Miami (associate editor)

'Japan in the World': A comprehensive analysis of Japan's international image

Empathic architecture: Digital fabrication and community participation (co-author)

‘Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan’: Chronicling the political theory of the Edo Period

Floor Polish: Floor as Furniture in Japan

'Japanese Architecture as a Collaborative Process': A must read to understand architecture in Japan

‘The Making of Urban Japan’: The best introduction to Japanese urban planning in English

‘MITI and the Japanese Miracle’: Revisiting Chalmers Johnson on the U.S.-Japan relationship

Culture and commerce thrive under Japan’s elevated train tracks

‘Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era’: Essays on growth and bureaucracy

‘Between Land and Sea’: Disentangling architect Kiyonori Kikutake from metabolism

Are Japanese really ‘docile’?: challenging an enduring myth

‘Postmodernism in Japan’: Critics, historians and writers analyze the contemporary age

‘One Hundred Million Philosophers’: The life and times of Japan’s Science of Thought group

Aida Atelier’s Unplan Hostel turns a transient space into a forum for social and cultural connection

Reinvigorating the fading holiday culture of Lake Chuzenji: On the Water by Nikken Sekkei

‘Japan-ness in Architecture’: Arata Isozaki and the search for a national identity

‘As We Saw Them’: Masao Miyoshi and the dawn of U.S.-Japan relations

Interview: Helene Combs Dreiling

‘Neighborhood Tokyo’ dispels myths about the megacity

‘Off Center’ tries to pull Japan out of America’s shadow

Recurring views of Tokyo’s utopian dream

Neighborhood Profile: Gilpin Court

Neighborhood Profile: Newtowne

‘Allegories of Time and Space’ tunnels into the history of modern Japanese aesthetics

Sou Fujimoto’s ‘Architecture Works 1995-2015’ prioritizes visuals over insight

Hathaway Tower

Portfolio: Modernism of Willow Lawn

Neighborhood Profile: Bon Air

In Support of Pear Street

Sister Cities Profile: Saitama

Commissioned Review

Brookland Park Boulevard

Interview: Burt Pinnock

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