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SHIKI Kimiko
Professor Ph.D. in Urban Planning (UCLA)Community & Regional Policy Studies Major (CRPS)of Policy Science
Graduate School of Policy Science
Ritsumeikan University
Office
Ritsumeikan University Osaka/Ibaraki Campus (OIC)2-150 Iwakura-Cho Ibaraki City, Osaka, Japan 567-8570
(10 Min Walk from JR Ibaraki Sta.)
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Research Field
・Urban housing policy toward low-income households・Spatial problems of urban poverty
Current Research Interests
・Community development in public/improved housing neighborhoods・Residential mobility and locational choice of low-income households
・Subsidized private rental housing
・Urban problems in post-industrial cities
・Spatial access to employment, transit, and urban services
・Comparative analysis of urban housing policies
・Urbanization problems in Asian countries
Selected research outcomes
・A preliminary study on the homeownership program and its empowerment impact on the public housing community redeveloped through the area improvement project: a case study of a municipality in Shiga prefecture (with Shingo Tsumaki, Ryushi Uchida, & Tomohiko Yoshida)(Japanese)・Public housing and industrial restructuring in Chicago (with Alexander S. Ferrer)(Japanese)[Link]
・The public housing choice of one-parent families: geographically limited and child-oriented neighborhood choices (with Emiko Itami, Masaya Uesugi, Hyunju Cho, Keiichirou Narukawa, Manabu Kono, Mayumi Nakanishi & Keiji Yano)(Japanese)
・A review of recent research on the effects of the U.S. housing voucher program on expanding neighborhood choice: including a summary of the program conditions in Los Angeles (Japanese)[Link]
・Housing conditions of non-resident college graduates in Changchun City, China (with Rong Du) (Japanese)[Link]
Last
Updated 02/03/2026