Philip Hayward (Author, Series Edited By) Philip Hayward is an adjunct professor in the School of Community, Culture and Global Studies at the University of British Columbia, Kelowna. He is editor of the Environmental Humanities journal Shima , a strategic advisor to the international River Cities Network and co-coordinator of the Flowzones project in northern New South Wales (Australia). He has written widely on riverine and related aquatic topics in various journals and his latest volume is Aquapelagos: Integrated Marine and Terrestrial Assemblages , co-edited with May Joseph (Pratt Institute, New York) and published by Routledge in December 2024. Junichi Hasegawa (Author) Junichi Hasegawa is a professor at Keio University in Tokyo. He has written books and articles on British and Japanese urban policy and urban planning during and after the Second World War, including Replanning the Blitzed City Centre (Open University Press, 1992), 'The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in 1940s Britain', Twentieth Century British History Vol. 10 (1999) and (with Nick Tiratsoo) Urban Reconstruction in Britain and Japan, 1945-1955 (University of Luton Press, 2002). His recent publications include 'The Infilling and Reclamation of Inland Waterways in Tokyo, 1945-1962', Shima Vol. 17 (2023), 'The plans for Tokyo Bay: the challenge of urban policy, 1950s-1990s', Urban History Vol.

51 (2024) and 'Redeveloping Tokyo's Meiji Jingu Gaien Area: The Metropolitan Government's City Planning Runs Amok', Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus Vol. 23 (2025).