Journal articles
2024 Tetiranont, S., Sadakorn, W., Rugkhapan, N. T., & Prasittisopin, L. (2024). Enhancing Sustainable Railway Station Design in Tropical Climates: Insights from Thailand’s Architectural Theses and Case Studies. Buildings, 14(3), 829.
2024 Tetiranont, S., Sadakorn, W., Rugkhapan, N. T., & Prasittisopin, L. (2024). Review of Sustainable Railway Station Design in Tropical Climate: Case of Thailand.
2023 Placino, P., & Rugkhapan, N.T. Making visible concrete’s shadow places: Mixing environmental concerns and social inequalities into building materials. Environment & Urbanization
2023 Rugkhapan, N.T. Linear tourism, multiculturalism, creative district: the case of Charoenkrung, Thailand. Annals of Tourism Research, 102, 103626.
2022 Natakul B., & Rugkhapan, N. T. (2022). Art of Resistance: art activism, experts, and housing security in Nang Loeng, Bangkok, Thailand. Asia Pacific Viewpoint.
2021 Rugkhapan, N. T. (2021). Learn from Elsewhere: a relational geography of policy learning in Bangkok’s creative district. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 53(8), 1952-1973.
2020 Rugkhapan, N. T. (2020). Reseeing Chinatown: cartographic response and neighborhood reinvention, Urban Geography, 41(4), 573-606.
2019 Rugkhapan, N. T., & Murray, M. J. (2019). Songdo IBD (International Business District): experimental prototype for the city of tomorrow?. International Planning Studies, 24(3-4), 272-292.
2016 Rugkhapan, N. T. (2016). Unseeing Chinatown: Universal Zoning, Planning Abstraction and Space of Difference. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40(3), 601-620.
2015 Rugkhapan, N. T. (2015). Mapping the historic city: Mapmaking, preservation zoning, and violence. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33(5), 869-888.
Book chapters
2022 Rugkhapan, N. T. (2022). Between toponymy and cartography: an evolving geography of heritage in George Town, Malaysia. In G. Niedt (Ed.), New Directions in Linguistic Geography, Palgrave Macmillan Press.
2022 Rugkhapan, N. T. (2022). Authoritarian urbanism: space, law, and state exceptionalism in Bangkok’s historic district. In N. Koch (Ed.), Spatializing Authoritarianism. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Conference presentations
2022 Hipster bar, urban change, and spatial conflict, a conference paper presented at Neighborhood Transformation in East Asian Cities: Is “Gentrification” the Right Frame of Reference, organized by IDE-JETRO and UKNA
2019 Disrupting the Creative District: policy mobilities, expertise, and exclusion, a conference paper presented at the International Conference on Cultural Governance in Asia, organized by City University of Hong Kong and Shan Yue University, May 2019
2019 The Cosmopolitan Shophouse: architectural knowledge, expertise, and mobilities, a conference paper presented Association of Asian Studies in Asia (AAS-in-Asia), July 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.
2016 The politics of zoning and architectural guidelines in George Town, Malaysia, a paper presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference, in Portland, Oregon, USA, November 3-6 2016
2016 Curating the Historic City: mapmaking, zoning, and exclusion in George Town, Malaysia Selected as one of the four panelists for the early-career scholar ‘Rising Voices’ panel on ‘Urban exclusion in Southeast Asia’ at the 2016 Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference in Seattle, WA, USA, March 31-April 3, 2016
2015 Demystifying the Penang Model: urban heritage, context, and policy borrowing Presented at the ‘Mainland Southeast Asian Relations: Transnational Agendas, Intraregional Affairs’ conference, organized by Mahidol University International College, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, June 24-25, 2015
2015 Unseeing Chinatown: landuse zoning, abstraction, and space of difference.
Presented at the ‘Urban and Regional Planning Academic Symposium’, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 7, 2015
2014 Contesting Chinese Space: Multiple ways of seeing in Bangkok’s Chinatown.
Presented at the ‘International Conference on Citizens, Civil Society, and the Cultural Politics of Heritage-Making in East and Southeast Asia’, Academia Sinica, Taipei,Taiwan, December 11-13, 2014.
2013 Coding the historic city: Codes, zoning, and the selective reconstruction in Old Bangkok. Presented at the ‘New Research in Southeast Asian History’ conference,
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, October 19, 2013.
Other writings
From Bangkok to Surabaya and Back: Reflection,
Sugar Nutmeg. February 21, 2024
Nang Loeng, Bangkok: Precarity of Heritage, Precarity as Heritage, The Newsletter 90 Autumn 2021, International Institute for Asian Studies.
Opinion: A rebuke to Cod Satrusayang’s call for the youth to be less radical. Thai Enquirer. October 7, 2020.
Unsettling Thailand’s Multiple Borders During the Coronavirus Lockdown. Pandemic: Border-Crossing Caveats. Global-e: A Global Studies Journal, N-PAG. August 11, 2020| Volume 13 | Issue 53
Urban exclusion in Southeast Asia, April 14, 2016, New Mandala.
Narrative in Urban Theory, Agora Journal of Urban Planning and Design, 120-129. 2014
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