ดร.นพงศ์ รักขพันธุ์

website: ntrs.blog

ประวัติการศึกษา | Education

• PhD Urban & Regional Planning, University of Michigan (2017)
• MSc Interntational Planning (Urban Design focus), the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (2009)
• AB History of Art & Architecture, International Relations, Brown University (2008)

ประวัติการทำงาน | Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, 2022 – present
• Assistant Professor, School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, 2020-2022
• Lecturer, School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, 2017-2020
• Town Planner, Department of Town & Country Planning, Ministry of Interior 2009-2012

Journal articles

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.

Research interests

Comparative urban theory
Gentrification and neighborhood change
Cross-context circulation of planning and urbanism ideas
Cities in Southeast Asia