摘要
<正>NX:In 2002 you published the book The Making of Urban Japan:Cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century,an important work for understanding Japanese planning histor y.And you took a Postdoctoral research fellowship and taught in Japan.As a Canadian,what brought you to be interested in Japan and its planning history?(I noticed you had an interview with UTSC https://utsc.utoronto.ca/geography/andresorensen.It’s always interesting to begin an interview with talking about personal history.)2002年您出版了《城市日本的形成:从江户时代到二十一世纪》,这是一部了解日本规划史的重要著作。并且您的博士后是在日本。作为一个加拿大人,是什么让您对日本和它的规划史感兴趣?