First workshop announced for Japan-UK joint programme! To register your interest in attending please contact Professor Yoshimichi Yui
[ May 14th]
13:00-16:00 Excursion in Motomachi
Guide: Hiroshima City, Urban Development Bureau staff
Meeting Point: Motomachi Nursery School (20-5 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima)
[May 15th]
10:00-12:00 Workshop 1 “Aging in city”
Meeting Place: Satellite Campus Hiroshima (Hiroshima Prefectural Citizen’s Culture Center)
1-5-3 Otemachi Naka-ku, Hiroshima City tel: 082-245-2311
Presenters
Brian Webb (Cardiff University): Towards a research agenda for ageing high-rise neighbourhoods
Yoshimichi Yui and Yaqina Tong (Hiroshima University) : Housing trap in public houses in Japan: aging and diversification.
Shuang Wang and Sayaka Fujii (University of Tsukuba) : Challenges of public housing in Japan: Aging and increase of foreign residents
Taro Hirai (Hirosaki University): Beyond the Aging of Owners of Condominium in Japan : possibilities and limits of Ostrom’s scheme
13:30-15:30 Workshop 2 “Shrinking city”
Guest speakers
Norioki Ishimaru (Former professor, Hiroshima University): The process of redevelopment project in Motomachi
Sophie Buhnik (French research institute on Japan (CNRS-MoFA)): Shrinking Cities Finally on the Agenda? About the recent implementation of revitalization policies for mid-size cities in France
Presenters
Maxwell Hartt (Cardiff University): Is there such a thing as a prosperous shrinking city? Exploring depopulation, prosperity and quality of life in US cities
Akihiko Osawa (Takasaki City University of Economic): The history of cultural landscape preservation in the world heritage site around Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome
Ageing High-Rise Neighbourhoods 