Osaka skyline

Lecturer in Urban Design (Urban Studies), Dr James White, and research partners have been awarded £49,500, from the ESRC and Arts & Humanities Research Council.  Their bid answered the UK-Japan Connections call on 'Challenges and solutions for ageing high-rise neighbourhoods'.  

Dr Brian Webb at Cardiff University is leading the grant with Dr White as a Co-Investigator, together with a fellow Cardiff University academic, one at UCL, and three Japanese academics at the University of Hiroshima, Takasaki City University of Economics, and the University of Tsukuba. 

Activities proposed in their bid outlined a focus on three broad areas of concern to double-aging high-rise neighbourhoods: impacts of an ageing population on existing high-rise neighbourhoods, the influence of design and planning in addressing or exacerbating double-ageing, and the role of housing tenure, management, and adaptability in older high-rise developments.

Dr White will be touring buildings in Japan as part of the project, and discussing future implications of their tear down or rehabilitation with policy-makers. 

Also planned is the hosting of a workshop with CACHE (UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence), a research centre led by the University of Glasgow, within our School of Social & Political Sciences.

First published: 20 December 2018

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