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Yes, you should go to Nagasaki
What makes the NYT travel pick such a special city
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Sento and saunas
Community commons and consumer choices are not the same thing
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The Line was the zenith of our age of insanity
Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!
Nov 22, 2025
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A roof in the rain
Five years of Labyrinth, Substack subscriptions, and Onomichi cat calendars
Nov 3, 2025
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Osaka Airbnb-ification
Post-growth gentrification in the expo city
Oct 22, 2025
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Is the best tech for learning Japanese 20 years old?
I miss the cognitive friction of my old electronic dictionary
Sep 2, 2025
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Is a city alive?
From the rights of nature to the right to the city
Aug 22, 2025
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Why Tokyo bikes more than NYC
It’s not more bike lanes. It’s the absence of cars
Jun 19, 2025
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Urbanism and stories from my renovation projects and research in Tokyo and Onomichi, Japan
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